[PATCH 4/5] arm-cci: Split the code for PMU vs driver support

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Mar 3 07:53:56 PST 2015



On 02/03/15 11:29, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>
> This patch separates the PMU driver code from the low level
> CCI driver code.
>
> Introduces config options for both.
>
>   ARM_CCI400_PORT_CTRL	- controls the low level driver code for
> 			  CCI400 ports.
>   ARM_CCI400_PMU 	- controls the PMU driver code
>   ARM_CCI400_COMMON 	- Common defintions for CCI400
>
> Also the ARM_CCI400_PORT_CTRL cannot be enabled by user. This
> should be selected by platforms which need it.
>
> This patch also changes:
>   ARM_CCI - common code for probing the CCI devices. This can be
>     used for adding support for newer CCI versions(e.g, CCI-500).
>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig   |    2 +-
>   arch/arm/mach-vexpress/Kconfig |    4 ++--
>   drivers/bus/Kconfig            |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   drivers/bus/arm-cci.c          |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>   include/linux/arm-cci.h        |    7 ++++++-
>   5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/bus/Kconfig b/drivers/bus/Kconfig
> index b99729e..bdc189f 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/bus/Kconfig
> @@ -43,12 +43,31 @@ config OMAP_INTERCONNECT
>   	help
>   	  Driver to enable OMAP interconnect error handling driver.
>
> -config ARM_CCI
> -	bool "ARM CCI driver support"
> +config ARM_CCI400_PORT_CTRL
> +	bool
>   	depends on ARM && OF && CPU_V7
> +	select ARM_CCI400_COMMON
> +	help
> +	  Low level power management driver for CCI400 cache coherent
> +	  interconnect for ARM platforms.
> +
> +config ARM_CCI400_PMU
> +	bool "ARM CCI400 PMU support"
> +	depends on ARM || ARM64
> +	depends on HW_PERF_EVENTS
> +	select ARM_CCI400_COMMON
>   	help
> -	  Driver supporting the CCI cache coherent interconnect for ARM
> -	  platforms.
> +	  Support for PMU events monitoring on the ARM CCI cache coherent
> +	  interconnect.
> +
> +	  If unsure, say N

Just a query rather than comment. Before this change all platforms
having ARM_CCI and HW_PERF_EVENTS had CCI PMU enabled by default.
With this change, one has to select this option explicitly. I assume
that's fine, else this needs to be default 'y'

Regards,
Sudeep




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