Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add entries for CoreSight and Arm SPE

[Mathieu Poirier]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 11:56, John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17/08/2020 20:31, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> > Add entries for perf tools elements related to the support of
> > Arm CoreSight and Arm SPE.
>
> Thanks for doing this...
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS | 10 ++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 4e2698cc7e23..f9bb76baeec9 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -13427,8 +13427,18 @@ F:   tools/perf/
> >   PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM ARM64 PMU EVENTS
> >   R:  John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   R:  Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +R:   Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +R:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   L:  linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> >   S:  Supported
> > +F:   tools/build/feature/test-libopencsd.c
> > +F:   tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > +F:   tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.*
> > +F:   tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c
> > +F:   tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
> > +F:   tools/perf/util/arm-spe.h
> > +F:   tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/*
> > +F:   tools/perf/util/cs-etm.*
>
> But from the previous discussion, I thought that we wanted an entry to
> cover all tools/perf/arch/arm64/ and other related folders. Or was it
> just put all special interest parts (like SPE support) under one entry
> and leave the other arm/arm64 parts to be caught by "PERFORMANCE EVENTS
> SUBSYSTEM" entry?

I do not have the time to maintain anything outside of coresight -
listing individual files as I did removes any ambiguity on that front.
I'm happy to add tools/perf/arch/arm and tools/perf/arch/arm64/ if you
agree to maintain them.  In that case you will have to be more
specific about the "other related folders" you are referring to above.

Thanks,
Mathieu

>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> >   F:  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/
> >
> >   PERSONALITY HANDLING
> >
>