arm64: cpufeature: allow for version discrepancy in PMU implementations
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:17:52 +0000 (16:17 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:27:56 +0000 (14:27 +0000)
Perf already supports multiple PMU instances for heterogeneous systems,
so there's no need to be strict in the cpufeature checking, particularly
as the PMU extension is optional in the architecture.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c

index 99f56983c4157f215ab6725505eb2393f2cc9c79..d9714adb6a2a8cecc90acf659b5b4f726adb4c5f 100644 (file)
@@ -184,7 +184,11 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64dfr0[] = {
        ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64DFR0_CTX_CMPS_SHIFT, 4, 0),
        ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64DFR0_WRPS_SHIFT, 4, 0),
        ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64DFR0_BRPS_SHIFT, 4, 0),
-       S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+       /*
+        * We can instantiate multiple PMU instances with different levels
+        * of support.
+        * */
+       S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_SHIFT, 4, 0),
        ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_TRACEVER_SHIFT, 4, 0),
        ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_DEBUGVER_SHIFT, 4, 0x6),
        ARM64_FTR_END,