Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 07:11:57 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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        Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:02:42PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Also, if a given configuration disables CONFIG_EDAC there is some hackery
> needed to get the perf portion of the driver included.

Yes, and we don't do performance counters in EDAC.

So you could add a small memory controller driver which does the
arbitration or fix the firmware.

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    Boris.

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