Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754759AbaAWKd3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:33:29 -0500 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:46861 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbaAWKdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:33:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:32:16 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Stephen Boyd Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Neil Leeder , Ashwin Chaugule Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] ARM: perf_event: Fully support Krait CPU PMU events Message-ID: <20140123103216.GC5466@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1389808535-23852-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> <1389808535-23852-6-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> <20140121180711.GN30706@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <52DEBE6B.7000904@codeaurora.org> <52E02E7E.4050203@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52E02E7E.4050203@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:47:58PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 01/21/14 10:37, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > On 01/21/14 10:07, Will Deacon wrote: > >> Do you need isbs to ensure the pmresrn side-effects have happened, or are > >> the registers self-synchronising? Similarly for your other IMP DEF > >> registers. > > There aren't any isbs in the downstream android sources so I assume > > they're self synchronizing. I'll confirm with the CPU designers to make > > sure. > > > > CPU folks say no need for isb. Good, good! > They mentioned that the lack of an isb after the > armv7_pmnc_enable_counter() call will leave the action of enabling the > counter "in-flight". The window is probably pretty short on an SMP kernel > because of the spin_unlock right after with the barriers in it, but the > same can't be said for a UP kernel. Yep, we rely on the exception return for that. > Also, the fuzzer didn't find anything else, but I found a bug in the > bitmap logic, updated and reran the fuzzer this morning. Everything > looks good. Okey doke, I guess if you can repost at -rc1 then I can look at pulling this into my tree. Cheers, Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/