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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote:
> The implemented Cortex A57 events are not A57 specific.
> They are recommended by ARM and can be found on other
> ARMv8 SOCs like Cavium ThunderX too. Therefore move
> these events to the common PMUv3 table.

I can't find anything in the architecture that suggests these event
numbers are necessarily portable between implementations. Am I missing
something?

Will