On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 05:36:44AM +0530, Anurup M wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2016 12:00 AM, Mark Rutland wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:42:01AM -0400, Anurup M wrote: > >>+ - scl-id : The Super Cluster ID. This can be the ID of the CPU die > >>+ or IO die in the chip. > >What's this needed for? > This is used as suffix to the PMU name. hisi_l3c<scl-id>. (hisi_l3c2 > - for scl-id = 2). > This is to identify the pmu correspond to which CPU die in the socket. > >>+ - num-events : No of events supported by this PMU device. > >>+ > >>+ - num-counters : No of hardware counters available for counting. > >This isn't probeable or well-known? > My idea is to have the common properties of SoC PMU added here. > The num-events, num-counters etc. So that handling can be made > common in the driver. > Is it not recommended? Please share your comments. This feels like something that should be well-known for the programming model of the device. If the number of events and/or counters shange, I'd expect other things to also change such that the device is no longer compatible with previous versions. [...] > The below two properties (module-id, cfgen-map) differs between > chips hip05/06 and hip07. The module-id property sounds like a HW description, but it's not entirely clear to me what cfgen-map is; more comments on that below. > Please suggest. > >>+ - module-id : Module ID to input for djtag. This property is an array of > >>+ module_id for each L3 cache banks. > >>+ > >>+ - num-banks : Number of banks or instances of the device. > >What's a bank? Surely they have separate instances of the PMU? > Yes each bank is a separate instance of PMU. > If it is recommended to have each L3 cache bank registered as > separate PMU with perf, then this property will be removed. Generally, I think that separate instances are preferable. > >What order are these in? > The bank number will start from "1" till "4" for L3 cache as there > are four banks in hip05/06/07 chips. > >>+ - cfgen-map : Config enable array to select the bank. > >Huh? As above, it's not clear to me what this property represents. Could you please clarify? Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
