Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:06:13 +0000 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events |
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:40:37PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > 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?
Aha, I just noticed appendix K3.1 (silly me for missing it...).
Lemme check whether or not that mandates that those encodings can't be used for wildly different things.
Will
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