[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Cleanup cache_sel bits comment

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Oct 10 01:12:39 AEDT 2017


Update the raw event code comment in power9-pmu.c with respect to
"cache" bits, since power9 MMCRC does not support these.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1:
- No change

 arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
index 24b5b5b7a206..88b0a78eff4d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
@@ -63,16 +63,8 @@
  *	MMCRA[9:11] = thresh_cmp[0:2]
  *	MMCRA[12:18] = thresh_cmp[3:9]
  *
- * if unit == 6 or unit == 7
- *	MMCRC[53:55] = cache_sel[1:3]      (L2EVENT_SEL)
- * else if unit == 8 or unit == 9:
- *	if cache_sel[0] == 0: # L3 bank
- *		MMCRC[47:49] = cache_sel[1:3]  (L3EVENT_SEL0)
- *	else if cache_sel[0] == 1:
- *		MMCRC[50:51] = cache_sel[2:3]  (L3EVENT_SEL1)
- * else if cache_sel[1]: # L1 event
- *	MMCR1[16] = cache_sel[2]
- *	MMCR1[17] = cache_sel[3]
+ * MMCR1[16] = cache_sel[2]
+ * MMCR1[17] = cache_sel[3]
  *
  * if mark:
  *	MMCRA[63]    = 1		(SAMPLE_ENABLE)
-- 
2.7.4



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