[PATCH 0/2] CCI PMU update

[Will Deacon]

[adding Olof and arm at kernel.org]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:17:01PM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> Here are a short couple of patches to update the CCI PMU perf backend
> to better support IP updates.
> 
> The first patch simplifies version checking to assume that event
> numbering doesn't change for > r1p0 (it changed between r0 and r1).
> This change should help reduce code churn when IP version is bumped up
> without any changes to event numbering.
> 
> The second patch exports the PMU version to userspace (via the PMU
> name) to allow tooling to deal with event numbering differences.
> 
> I'd appreciate any feedback on the changes.
> 
> The patches are based on top of 3.14-rc3 and can hopefully make it for
> 3.15.

Since these patches [1] are small and trivial, would the arm-soc folk be
happy picking them directly? I can put together a branch and pull request if
necessary, but it seems a bit OTT for this.

Will

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-February/234041.html