[PATCH] drivers: perf: arm: implement CPU_PM notifier

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Wed Feb 24 17:10:20 PST 2016


Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> writes:

> When a CPU is suspended (either through suspend-to-RAM or CPUidle),
> its PMU registers content can be lost, which means that counters
> registers values that were initialized on power down entry have to be
> reprogrammed on power-up to make sure the counters set-up is preserved

This assumes that the PMUs are always sharing a power rail with a
specific CPU, not the cluster.  Is that a reliable assumption?

Kevin



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