Re: acpi: Remove ETM from AMBA scan list (was Re: [PATCH V6 6/6] coresight: etm4x: Add ACPI support in platform driver)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:18 PM Steve Clevenger OS
<scclevenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rafael, Len,
>
> On 7/24/2023 9:25 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > Hi Rafael/Len
> >
> > On 19/07/2023 11:11, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> >> Rafael, Len
> >>
> >> Ping (packets 6, lost 100%).
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/07/2023 17:40, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> >>> Rafael, Len
> >>>
> >>> On 10/07/2023 07:25, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> >>>> From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> Drop ETM4X ACPI ID from the AMBA ACPI device list, and instead just
> >>>> move it
> >>>> inside the new ACPI devices list detected and used via platform driver.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Cc: coresight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> (for ACPI specific
> >>>> changes)
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> We would like to queue this via coresight tree. The acpi_amba bits have
> >>> been reviewed by Sudeep. Please could you give us an Ack, if you are
> >>> happy with the proposal ?
> >>>
> >
> > Please could one of you respond to this patch ? We are blocked on your
> > Ack for queuing this. There are machines out there, which rely on this
> > patch to use Arm self-hosted tracing based on CoreSight.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Suzuki
>
> Ampere Computing AmpereOne machines rely on this patch series to enable
> System Register Access to the ETMv4. Ampere removed the ETM MMIO
> descriptions from our CoreSight ACPI to use this.
>
> Suzuki's e-mail requests for review/Ack of this patch thread date back
> to May 30.

I've just talked to Suzuki about this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20230726140515.368981-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx

This patch has received a Reviewed-by from Sudeep which for all
purposes should be sufficient for any ARM-related ACPI material that
doesn't affect any other architectures.  An ACK from me (or Len for
that matter) would not make any real difference from the technical
perspective.

I would appreciate assigning an official ARM maintainer to acpi_amba.c
so as to avoid such unnecessary delays in the future.