[PATCH] drivers/perf: hisi: Add identifier sysfs file

[Will Deacon]

Hi John,

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:23:19AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:05:11PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> > > To allow userspace to identify the specific implementation of the device,
> > > add an "identifier" sysfs file.
> > > 
> > > Encoding is as follows:
> > > hi1620: 0x0	(aka hip08)
> > > hi1630: 0x30
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>
> > 
> > I'm struggling a bit to track this. If you still think it's worth pursuing,
> > please could you post a series with a cover-letter describing what this is
> > for, a link to the userspace changes and then patches for all the PMU
> > drivers that need updating?
> 
> There is no hi1630 userspace support yet.
> 
> So what I can do is post updated userspace support (including hi1630), and
> then post kernel parts together for all drivers we could initially support.
> 
> @Joakim, I'll pick your imx driver changes here, if you don't mind.
> 
> There was an RFC from you for the SMMUv3 PMU as
> > well, and also some other "arm64" changes.
> > 
> 
> I hope to drop that RFC if an updated SMMUv3 spec helps us out.

Thanks, John. That should be a tonne easier to review.

Will