Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:08:56 +0200
From: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU
 counters
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:11:57AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

OK. As fixing the firmware will take quite some time I'll go for the memory
controller driver that starts EDAC / PMU depending on their CONFIG_.

What would be the proper location for the multiplexer?
drivers/soc/cavium or drivers/misc?

--Jan