Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:26:31 +1000
From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, acme@redhat.com, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support
Message-ID: <20130415102630.GA2478@concordia>
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:31:26AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 14:17 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > This patch adds preliminary support for the power8 PMU to perf.
> 
> Might be worthwhile to have a small blurb explaining roughly what you
> mean by "preliminary" :-)

True.

There's no alternative handling, and no cache events. I need to work
with the HW folks on both of those.

Also missing is EBB support. I will hopefully post that in the next few
days.

cheers
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