On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Feng Kan <fkan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch series adds PMU node for APM X-Gene's Potenza CPU. > Potenza CPU PMU is compatible with ARMv8-PMUv3. > > I am resending this patch since the original author has left the company and > I am taking over for the work. There is no change to the original patch. > > Just a comment on the dependency on the second part of the patch. Though I > agree that without the GIC patch, perf utility does not function correctly on > our current platform. However, it also requires the correct bootloader to be > installed to perform the correct actions. This does not break Linux, which > lead me to remove the statement in the previous attempt. I have since put > back the statement and hope that the maintainer would provide some guidance > on if the patch would be postponed because the dependancy. > > Feng Kan (2): > dt-bindings: Add Potenza PMU binding > arm64: dts: Add PMU node for APM X-Gene Storm SOC > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt | 1 + > arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi | 5 +++++ > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) I can confirm that this gives me hardware counter support with perf on X-Gene on latest linus with*out* the referenced additional GIC patch. Tested-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
