[PATCH 5/7] ARM: mvebu: Enable Performance Monitor Unit on Armada 375 SoC

Dear Ezequiel Garcia,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:51:27 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:16:42 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

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The <mpic 3> is a per CPU interrupt.

Actually, the interrupt contains more than just PMU events, it contains
a summary of several CPU events: Perf counters for each CPU, Power
management interrupts for each CPU, L2 cache interrupt, among others.

This is kind of a side discussion but if this <mpic 3> interrupts does
much more than PMU events, then we should implement a separate irqchip
driver for this, to "demultiplex" the events notified by this interrupt.

Oh, I didn't realize this was possible.

The only trick is that it can't be a separate DT node, because the
registers that contains the mask/cause informations for the events
notified by <mpic 3> belongs to the MPIC registers area.

Not sure how to handle that, maybe Mark will have some suggestions.

Thomas
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