RE: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: ARM Performance Monitoring Unit Table (APMT) initial support

[Besar Wicaksono]

Hi Sudeep,

> Any particular reason why you would like to rush and push this without
> the actual driver to probe the device being added here ?

I plan to have two patch series, one for ACPI patch (this patch) and one for driver patch.
My understanding is the driver patch will depend on this patch, but not the other way. So, I thought it would be better to get this patch approved first.
However, if it helps the review of this patch, I am hoping to post the driver patch by end of the week and will CC you on that one.

> I really don't prefer this name:
> 1. arm-coresight-pmu is much better than "csite". I see the short form
>    used elsewhere in the kernel is just "cs" as in cs_etm,...etc
> 2. Since APMT is more generic than just coresight(I understand coresight
>    was the initial motivation for the generic specification) and also
>    the type list seem to cover memory controller, SMMU,..etc, does
>    it make sense to call it "arm-generic-pmu" or something similar.

Between these two, I would prefer arm-coresight-pmu just to anticipate another standard in the future from ARM.
The APMT, to my understanding, is applicable only to CoreSight based PMUs. Using "coresight" as part of the device name is reasonable.

> Not sure if the same device name will be re-used or PMUs can be registered
> with different name under perf subsystem, but the name matters for the user
> space tools and decoders. They may use the name or type information to analyse
> the data samples.
>
> So it is better to wait for all those discussion as part of the driver
> upstreaming before you use this device name unless we are absolutely sure
> the PMUs can be registered with different names in the driver(which could
> be possible, I just don't know)
>
> Apart from this name, I am OK with the changes here and happy to ack if it
> is OK to merge this without any driver to probe this device yet.

I believe using a different name to register the PMU is possible.
In the current driver patch, we use a different name format to register the PMU: arm_csite_pmu<numeric id>. Certainly the "csite" needs to change as well 😊
Another example like ARM CCI PMU uses device name "ARM-CCI PMU", but it is registered to perf subsystem as "CCI_400" or "CCI_500".

If there is no objection, I can post update to this patch and go ahead with "arm-coresight-pmu" for the device name.

Regards,
Besar