Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 2/3] target/arm: cortex-a7 and cortex-a15 have pmus

[Andrew Jones]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:38:36PM +0000, Aaron Lindsay OS wrote:
> On Mar 22 17:23, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > cortex-a7 and cortex-a15 have pmus (PMUv2) and they advertise
> > them in ID_DFR0. Let's allow them to function. This also enables
> > the pmu cpu property to work with these cpu types, i.e. we can
> > now do '-cpu cortex-a15,pmu=off' to remove the pmu.
> 
> I'm a little nervous about this one, but PMUv2 isn't fresh enough in my
> mind to have a good reason other than that I didn't consider it when
> writing my recent PMU patches. Do you know if this boots a kernel that
> can detect and use the PMU successfully while thinking it's PMUv2?
>

I didn't try booting a kernel and running perf or anything like that.
It does now run the pmu kvm-unit-tests test though. As this patch is
now in master the test you propose can be done with a latest build :)

Thanks,
drew