[PATCH 14/14] arm64: pmuv3: use arm_pmu ACPI framework

[Ganapatrao Kulkarni]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Ganapatrao,
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:30:17AM +0530, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
>> > +int __init armv8_pmu_driver_init(void)
>> > +{
>> > +       if (acpi_disabled)
>> > +               return platform_driver_register(&armv8_pmu_driver);
>> > +       else
>> > +               return arm_pmu_acpi_probe(armv8_pmuv3_init);
>>
>> i think this function needs to be updated to
>> probe SoC specific init (armv8_a53_pmu_init, armv8_vulcan_pmu_init
>> etc)  as well.
>
> Only exposing generic PMUv3 here was a deliberate decision, based on
> prior discussions, so as to keep things consistent on ACPI platforms
> regardless of which CPU types the PMU code is immediately aware of.
>
> I should have documented this better; sorry about that.
>
> All events which can be enumerated via the PMU ID registers will be
> exposed via sysfs.
>
> Other events (e.g. those which are implementation defined) will not be
> exposed via sysfs, but can still be used as raw events.
>
> There's been some perf tool work to allow these to be enumerated in
> userspace based on JSON files. This allows new events to be supported
> with a userspace update, event when the kernel itself is older than the
> CPU in question, and does not know anything about its events.

At present, i see JSON script being added to x86 and powerpc
is anybody working on it to extend this to arm64 as well?

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.

thanks
Ganapat