Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU counters

From: Jan Glauber
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 05:14:03 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 02:25:10PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 03:15:15PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > Uff, no idea. Greg? You're the special drivers guy. :-)
> >
> > Start out in misc/ and let's see the code to determine if it should be
> > moved elsewhere.
>
> Jan, are you ok making this change, or are you waiting for anything else
> from us? (Mark and I are just going through the pending PMU patches and
> we're not clear on the status of this one).

Hi Will,
it's my turn but I was on vacation. It was not completely trivial (well,
to me) to get the multiplexing working with modules but I'll look at it
again this week.

Cheers,
Jan