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The bitmap-based scheme for tracking DTC counter usage turns out to be a complete dead-end for its imagined purpose, since by the time we have to keep track of a per-DTC counter index anyway, we already have enough information to make the bitmap itself redundant. Revert the remains of it back to almost the original scheme, but now expanded to track per-DTC indices, in preparation for making use of them in anger. Note that since cycle count events always use a dedicated counter on a single DTC, we reuse the field to encode their DTC index directly. Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5f6ade76b47f033836d7a36c03555da896dfb4a3.1697824215.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.