Re: [PATCH v2] perf vendor events arm64: Add Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 events

[John Garry]

On 03/05/2019 00:47, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> The Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 both support all ARMv8 recommended events
> up to the RC_ST_SPEC (0x91) event with the exception of:
>
> - L1D_CACHE_REFILL_INNER (0x44)
> - L1D_CACHE_REFILL_OUTER (0x45)
> - L1D_TLB_RD (0x4E)
> - L1D_TLB_WR (0x4F)
> - L2D_TLB_REFILL_RD (0x5C)
> - L2D_TLB_REFILL_WR (0x5D)
> - L2D_TLB_RD (0x5E)
> - L2D_TLB_WR (0x5F)
> - STREX_SPEC (0x6F)
>
> Create an appropriate JSON file for mapping those events and update the
> mapfile.csv for matching the Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 MIDR to that
> file.

I suppose you could have also created separate a72 and a57 folders, and 
used a symbolic link for the json. That would have kept the folder 
structure consistent and neat.

> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Apart from the above:

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes in v2:
>
> - added a shared directory for both Cortex-A57 and A72 (Will)
> - removed unsupported ARMv8 v3 events (John)
>
>  .../arm/cortex-a57-a72/core-imp-def.json      | 179 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv  |   2 +
>  2 files changed, 181 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/cortex-a57-a72/core-imp-def.json
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-even