[PATCH 1/1] bus: cci: move away from arm_pmu framework

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal at arm.com
Wed Oct 29 07:23:37 PDT 2014


Hi Mark,

Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> writes:

> The ARM CPU PMUs and the ARM CCI PMU are using the same framework
> despite being substantially different in programming model, which makes
> it difficult to handle either particularly well.
>
> This patch migrates the ARM CCI PMU driver away from the arm_pmu
> framework, matching the style of the CCN PMU driver and other 'uncore'
> PMU drivers. This enables better support for the CCI PMU (including
> migration of events across CPUs across hotplug) and will allow for
> refactoring of the arm_pmu framework to better support CPU PMUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>

Looks good!

Acked-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>

> Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

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