Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events: Add missing Neoverse V1 events

[Nick Forrington]

On 02/09/2022 09:04, John Garry wrote:
> On 01/09/2022 16:18, Nick Forrington wrote:
> > Based on updated data from:
> > https://github.com/ARM-software/data/blob/master/pmu/neoverse-v1.json
> >
> > which is based on PMU event descriptions from the Arm Neoverse V1
> > Technical Reference Manual.
> >
> > This adds the following missing events:
> > ASE_INST_SPEC
> > SVE_INST_SPEC
> > SVE_PRED_SPEC
> > SVE_PRED_EMPTY_SPEC
> > SVE_PRED_FULL_SPEC
> > SVE_PRED_PARTIAL_SPEC
> > SVE_LDFF_SPEC
> > SVE_LDFF_FAULT_SPEC
> > FP_SCALE_OPS_SPEC
> > FP_FIXED_OPS_SPEC
> >
> > It also moves REMOTE_ACCESS from other.json to memory.json.
>
> Any specific reason why? I see that neoverse n2 and a76-n1 still use 
> "other" json for REMOTE_ACCESS. Nicer to be consistent.

Thanks John, I agree on consistency.

I think memory is a better categorisation (for all CPUs), and this is 
consistent with what I submitted for various Cortex CPUs a while back.

I'd be happy to remove the REMOTE_ACCESS change here and update (or not) 
REMOTE_ACCESS for Neoverse separately.

> > Signed-off-by: Nick Forrington<nick.forrington@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Apart from above:
> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, Nick