[PATCH V1] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Wed Mar 23 07:46:11 PDT 2016


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:36:14AM -0400, agustinv at codeaurora.org wrote:

> ACPI events *are* existing abstractions within ACPI-based systems and the
> mechanism works across OSes.

Correction; it never works anywhere. Its a nice idea on paper, but when
you're stuck with a firmware that hands you random values pulled from a
crack monkey's behind you have to then hack around, you wish you had
done the sane thing and stuffed it in code you can actually fix.



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