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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:58:53 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Gowthami Thiagarajan <gthiagarajan@marvell.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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        Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
        Bharat Bhushan <bbhushan2@marvell.com>,
        George Cherian <gcherian@marvell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf/marvell : Odyssey LLC-TAD performance monitor
 support
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 01:51:00PM +0000, Gowthami Thiagarajan wrote:
> > > +static int tad_pmu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> > > +	struct tad_region *regions;
> > > +	struct tad_pmu *tad_pmu;
> > > +	struct resource *res;
> > > +	u32 tad_pmu_page_size;
> > > +	u32 tad_page_size;
> > > +	u32 tad_cnt;
> > > +	int i, ret;
> > > +	char *name;
> > > +
> > > +	tad_pmu = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tad_pmu), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	if (!tad_pmu)
> > > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, tad_pmu);
> > > +
> > > +	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> > > +	if (!res) {
> > > +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Mem resource not found\n");
> > > +		return -ENODEV;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	ret = device_property_read_u32(dev, "marvell,tad-page-size", &tad_page_size);
> > > +	if (ret) {
> > > +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't find tad-page-size property\n");
> > > +		return ret;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	ret = device_property_read_u32(dev, "marvell,tad-pmu-page-size",
> > > +				       &tad_pmu_page_size);
> > > +	if (ret) {
> > > +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't find tad-pmu-page-size property\n");
> > > +		return ret;
> > > +	}
> > 
> > Why do you think these properties are necessary?
> > 
> > These should almost certainly be provided by IO resources, and shouldn't need a
> > custom property.
> 
> IO resources don't provide all the information in this case. Need to vary these values
> at different boot times. So, kept these custom properties.

Please can you be a bit more specific here? Which information is not
provided?

Will