[PATCH v4 0/4] Add JSON metrics for Yitian710 DDR

Jing Zhang renyu.zj at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Jun 27 00:19:48 PDT 2023



在 2023/6/26 下午8:44, Will Deacon 写道:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:00:46PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 8:08 PM Jing Zhang <renyu.zj at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>> 在 2023/6/21 上午3:04, Namhyung Kim 写道:
>>>> I'm curious why the first patch is needed, presumably the PMU
>>>> should have 'ali_drw' in the name already.  Do we use substring
>>>> match for the compat name in the JSON metric?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The main purpose of patch 1 is to add an identifier so that the Compat
>>> field can match the corresponding event when defining aliases or metrics
>>> for events.
>>>
>>> For example, "Unit" can match "ali_drw" in the name and different SoCs may
>>> be able to match ali_drw, but they may have different events, and even if
>>> the events are the same, the meanings may be different. Therefore, the
>>> Compat field is needed to match the Identifier to confirm which type and
>>> revision of PMU the current SoC has. Therefore, both "Unit" and "Compat"
>>> need to be matched at the same time. Although it seems that ali_drw is
>>> redundantly matched currently, it is meaningful for future expansion.
>>
>> I see, thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> I think you need to route the kernel patch differently.  I can apply the tools
>> part once the kernel patch gets Acks from others.
> 
> Sorry, I missed this initially as I didn't realise there were kernel changes
> hidden in this series (I saw "JSON" and ignored it...). Given that the 6.5
> merge window is now open, I'll pick the kernel change up for 6.6 when I
> start queueing patches in a few weeks.
> 
> Will

Thank you will, maybe it is because I did not describe this series well, and
it is easy to cause the patch to be ignored. I will pay attention to this
problem in the future.

Thanks,
Jing



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