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+* ARM Performance Monitor Units
+
+ARM cores often have a PMU for counting cpu and cache events like cache misses
+and hits. The interface to the PMU is part of the ARM ARM. The ARM PMU
+representation in the device tree should be done as under:-
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : should be one of
+       "arm,cortex-a9-pmu"
+       "arm,cortex-a8-pmu"
+       "arm,arm1176-pmu"
+       "arm,arm1136-pmu"
+- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core.
+
+Example:
+
+pmu {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu";
+        interrupts = <100 101>;
+};
 
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 
 #include <asm/pmu.h>
        return 0;
 }
 
+#define OF_MATCH_PMU(_name, _type) {   \
+       .compatible = _name,            \
+       .data = (void *)_type,          \
+}
+
+#define OF_MATCH_CPU(name)     OF_MATCH_PMU(name, ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU)
+
+static struct of_device_id armpmu_of_device_ids[] = {
+       OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,cortex-a9-pmu"),
+       OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,cortex-a8-pmu"),
+       OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,arm1136-pmu"),
+       OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,arm1176-pmu"),
+       {},
+};
+
+enum arm_pmu_type armpmu_device_type(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+       const struct of_device_id       *of_id;
+
+       /* provided by of_device_id table */
+       if (pdev->dev.of_node) {
+               of_id = of_match_device(armpmu_of_device_ids, &pdev->dev);
+               BUG_ON(!of_id);
+               return (enum arm_pmu_type)of_id->data;
+       }
+
+       /* Provided by a 'legacy' platform_device */
+       return ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU;
+}
+
 static int __devinit armpmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
-       return pmu_register(pdev, ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU);
+       return pmu_register(pdev, armpmu_device_type(pdev));
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver armpmu_driver = {
        .driver         = {
                .name   = "arm-pmu",
+               .of_match_table = armpmu_of_device_ids,
        },
        .probe          = armpmu_device_probe,
 };