On 10/4/2016 11:53 AM, Mark Rutland wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 05:12:54PM -0400, Neil Leeder wrote: >> Adds perf events support for L2 cache PMU. >> >> The L2 cache PMU driver is named 'l2cache_0' and can be used >> with perf events to profile L2 events such as cache hits >> and misses. >> >> Signed-off-by: Neil Leeder <nleeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > >> drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig | 9 + >> drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile | 1 + >> drivers/soc/qcom/perf_event_l2.c | 948 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 + >> 4 files changed, 959 insertions(+) >> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/perf_event_l2.c > > Apologies for the delay; this has been on my todo list, but I've been a > little distracted and haven't had the time necessary to devote to this. > It's somewhat unusual given the constraint logic and the percpu uncore > component, so there's more to consider than usual. > > At a high level, this will need to be moved to drivers/perf/, per [1]. > > Can you move the driver there, and post the result atop of v4.8-rc1 at > the end of the merge window? Until then, I can't guarantee that I'll > have the time to look at this. > > Can you also give Vince's perf fuzzer [2] a spin against the driver? I > can't recall if we covered that previously, and in practice it's found a > number of issues in drivers that have otherwise looked fine. If you've > done so, it'd be worth noting in the cover. > > Thanks, > Mark. > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-September/457188.html > [2] https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests > Thanks Mark. I'll move it, rebase on 4.9-rc1 and run perf fuzzer. Neil -- Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
