Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Infrastructure to support checking of attr.config*

2021-03-14 Thread Madhavan Srinivasan
On 2/26/21 7:33 PM, Paul A. Clarke wrote: Another drive-by review... just some minor nits, below... On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:20:24PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: Introduce code to support the checking of attr.config* for values which are reserved for a given platform. Performance Monit

Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Infrastructure to support checking of attr.config*

2021-02-26 Thread Paul A. Clarke
Another drive-by review... just some minor nits, below... On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:20:24PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: > Introduce code to support the checking of attr.config* for > values which are reserved for a given platform. > Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) configuration registers

[PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Infrastructure to support checking of attr.config*

2021-02-25 Thread Madhavan Srinivasan
Introduce code to support the checking of attr.config* for values which are reserved for a given platform. Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) configuration registers have fields that are reserved and specific value to bit field as reserved. For ex., MMCRA[61:62] is Randome Sampling Mode (SM) and val