[PATCH v2 00/11] perf events patches for improved ARM64 support

John Garry john.garry at huawei.com
Tue Feb 27 02:03:33 PST 2018


On 27/02/2018 09:50, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:05:21AM +0800, John Garry wrote:
>> This patchset adds support for some perf events features,
>> targeted at ARM64, implemented in a generic fashion.
>>
>> The two main features are as follows:
>> - support for arch/vendor/platform pmu events directory structure
>>    - to support this, topic subdirectory support needs to be dropped
>> - support for parsing standard architecture pmu events
>>
>> On the back of these, the Cavium ThunderX2, ARM Cortex-A53,
>> and HiSilicon hip08 JSONs are relocated/added/updated.
>>
>> In addition, there is a patch to drop mutli-mapfile.csv support and
>> also a bugfix in jevents.c for an error code value.
>>
>> Differences to v1:
>> - Address coding issues from Jiri Olsa in adding arch std event
>>    support (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/501)
>> - add patch to drop topic subdirectory support
>> - add patch for bug fix in json_events()
>> - add review tags from Jiri Olsa
>
> can't tell if those json file changes are ok, but for all the code changes:
>

OK, I need Ganapatrao, William, and ARM64 kernel team/experts to check 
the JSONS.

Thanks very much,
John

> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
>
> thanks,
> jirka
>
> .
>





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