[PATCH] perf: add OMAP support for the new power events
Kevin Hilman
khilman at ti.com
Thu Mar 10 13:15:05 EST 2011
Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at newoldbits.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
>> Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at newoldbits.com> writes:
>>
>>> The patch adds the new power management trace points for
>>> the OMAP architecture.
>>>
>>> The trace points are for:
>>> - default idle handler. Since the cpuidle framework is
>>> instrumented in the generic way there is no need to
>>> add trace points in the OMAP specific cpuidle handler;
>>> - cpufreq (DVFS),
>>
>> Minor: AFAICT, this patch doesn't instrument CPUfreq.
> The generic framework provides a cpu_frequency event. Furthermore the
> clock_set_rate events are reporting the various SoC clock rate
> changes.
> Indeed the changelog is not accurate enough. Is '- cpufreq (DVFS)
> events are covered by the generic cpu_frequency events and the SoC
> clock changes events' better?
I'd prefer to just leave this out as either way, I find it confusing
based on the content of this patch.
Kevin
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