[PATCH v8 6/9] drivers: perf: hisi: Add support for Hisilicon Djtag driver

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Jun 9 09:45:53 PDT 2017


On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 05:09:25PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> At this point, we would rather concentrate on our new chipset, which
> is based on same perf HW architecture (so much code reuse), but uses
> directly mapped registers and *no djtag* - in this, most of the
> upstream effort from all parties is not wasted.

FWIW, I suspect the MMIO-based PMU is going to have a smoother path
upstream, assuming it's not shared with other agents (and we don't have
another locking scheme to contend with).

Thanks,
Mark.



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