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From: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
To: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jared D . McNeill" <jmcneill@netbsd.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	arm-linux <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: allwinner: a64: Drop PMU node
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:52:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+E=qVdHOtebR6xjpwTY_Whp0cHLtv82YULmxLPSEzdLN9TnVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1hv5vZ-0000jN-M8@stardust.g4.wien.funkfeuer.at>

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:19 PM Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org> wrote:
>
> Vasily Khoruzhick writes:
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:35 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 06/08/2019 15:01, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> > > > Looks like PMU in A64 is broken, it generates no interrupts at all and
> > > > as result 'perf top' shows no events.
> > >
> > > Does something like 'perf stat sleep 1' at least count cycles correctly?
> > > It could well just be that the interrupt numbers are wrong...
> >
> > Looks like it does, at least result looks plausible:
>
> I'm using perf stat regularly (cache benchmarks) and it works fine.
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't aware that perf stat is a poor test for
> the interrupts part of the node, when I added it. So I'm not too
> surprised I got it wrong.
>
> However, it would be unfortunate if the node got removed completely,
> because perf stat would not work anymore. Maybe we can only remove
> the interrupts or just fix them even if the HW doesn't work?

I'm not familiar with PMU driver. Is it possible to get it working
without interrupts?

>
> Harald

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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 14:01 [PATCH] arm64: dts: allwinner: a64: Drop PMU node Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-06 14:35 ` Robin Murphy
2019-08-06 14:45   ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-06 20:19     ` Harald Geyer
2019-08-06 20:52       ` Vasily Khoruzhick [this message]
2019-08-06 21:14         ` Robin Murphy
2019-08-07  2:39           ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-07 11:56             ` Maxime Ripard
2019-08-07 17:36               ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-08 16:26                 ` Maxime Ripard
2019-08-08 19:59                   ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-12  8:04                     ` Maxime Ripard
2019-08-12 18:01                       ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-08-12 18:22                         ` Harald Geyer
2019-08-13  5:39                         ` Maxime Ripard
2019-09-23 23:51                           ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-09-23 23:55                             ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-09-25 11:08                               ` Maxime Ripard
2019-10-31 19:10                                 ` Clément Péron
2019-10-31 20:35                                   ` Vasily Khoruzhick
2019-11-01 11:30                                     ` Clément Péron
2019-11-01 15:47                                       ` Andre Przywara
2019-11-11  1:43                                         ` André Przywara
2019-08-07 11:59             ` Robin Murphy
2019-08-07 11:12           ` Mark Rutland
2019-08-06 19:10 ` Emmanuel Vadot

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