[PATCH] drivers: CCI: add ARM CCI PMU support

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal at arm.com
Thu Aug 15 06:01:30 EDT 2013


Hi Rob,

On 14/08/13 23:38, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 08/14/2013 04:03 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>>
>>> The CCI PMU can profile bus transactions at the master and slave
>>> interfaces of the CCI. The PMU can be used to observe an aggregated view
>>> of the bus traffic between the various components connected to the CCI.
>>>
>>> Extend the existing CCI driver to support the PMU by registering a perf
>>> backend for it.
>>>
>>> Document the device tree binding to describe the CCI PMU.
>>>
>>> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt |   38 ++
>>> drivers/bus/arm-cci.c                         |  642 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 680 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt
>>> index 92d36e2..5bc95e5 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt
>
> [snip]
>
>>> +
>>> +		- interrupts:
>>> +			Usage: required
>>> +			Value type: <prop-encoded-array>
>>> +			Definition: comma-separated list of unique PMU
>>> +				    interrupts
>>
>> What is the list of interrupts related to, should there be an associated interrupts-names
>
> No, interrupt-names is optional, but you are correct that what function
> each interrupt is for must be defined.
>

I'll update the bindings documentation to describe the function of 
interrupts.

Thanks for the comments.

Punit

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