Bug#981186: linux: Enable CMN-600 interconnect on arm64
- To: Wookey <wookey@debian.org>, 981186@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#981186: linux: Enable CMN-600 interconnect on arm64
- From: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:34:45 -0800
- Message-id: <YBnFdc/lHrMa2GSH@doom.morgul.net>
- Reply-to: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>, 981186@bugs.debian.org
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:57:07PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> Current arm hardware such as graviton2 (AWS arm64 hardware) has
> 'Coherent Mesh Network' interconnect (between components in a
> soc). It's important that support for this is built in the kernel so
> it can be used.
>
> This requires CONFIG_ARM_CMN=y
To be precise, this driver is needed for perf event monitoring of this
interconnect. The interconnect itself is always in use.
On Amazon EC2, these PMU events are only exposed on the bare-metal
instances (e.g. m6g.metal), not the VMs.
We should still enable support for this driver, in any case.
noah
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