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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:15:51 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf: arm: Make PMUv3 driver available for aarch32
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To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
        Zaid Al-Bassam <zalbassam@google.com>
Cc:     Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesussanp@google.com>,
        Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
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        linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
        kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
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From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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On 2/8/23 08:40, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:44:36 +0000,
> Zaid Al-Bassam <zalbassam@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, PMUv3 driver is only available for ARMv8 aarch64
>> platforms, ARMv8 running in aarch32 mode dont have access to
>> the driver. This is, especially, a problem for ARMv8 platforms
>> that only have aarch32 support, like the Cortex-A32.
> 
> FWIW, I've pushed out my own interpretation of this series to [1],
> including the changes I suggested. The results seems to correctly work
> in a 32bit guest on a 64bit host, which is what I (used to) care
> about.
> 
> Feel free to pick it up.

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Thanks!
-- 
Florian