[PATCH 00/10] ARM: perf: updates for 3.2

[Jamie Iles]

Hi Will,

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 06:16:01PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch series contains a number of updates to the ARM PMU and perf
> code so that we can support mode exclusion, which is new in debug
> architecture 7.1 (as implemented by the Cortex-A15). Some of these
> updates also coincide with work to support System PMUs (PMUs that are
> not affine to a single CPU) but that is a larger body of work which will
> be posted separately at a later date.
> 
> The patches do the following:
> 
>   1.) Greatly simplify the PMU reservation mechanism so that the
>       handling of platform_devices is moved into perf.
>   2.) Cleans up the interrupt registration and some of the types used
>       to represent events and registers.
>   3.) Moves event indexing to start from zero rather than one, making
>       the code more readable and also easier to extend for mode
>       exclusion.
>   4.) Adds support for mode exclusion (user / kernel / hyp) and
>       implements this for Cortex-A15.
> 
> I've been running these patches since 3.0, so they've been tested on
> 1176, 11MPCore, Cortex-A5, Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 platforms.

A quick glance through them and they all look nice to me, but I can't 
get them to apply to any tree (next and master).  It looks like they're 
based on a tree with changes to the v7 perf support so I'm guessing it's 
your patches with A15 support.

Jamie