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Mark Rutland 66ec11919a perf pmu: Unbreak perf record for arm/arm64 with events with explicit PMU
Currently, perf record is broken on arm/arm64 systems when the PMU is
specified explicitly as part of the event, e.g.

$ ./perf record -e armv8_cortex_a53/cpu_cycles/u true

In such cases, perf record fails to open events unless
perf_event_paranoid is set to -1, even if the PMU in question supports
mode exclusion. Further, even when perf_event_paranoid is toggled, no
samples are recorded.

This is an unintended side effect of commit:

  e3ba76deef ("perf tools: Force uncore events to system wide monitoring)

... which assumes that if a PMU has an associated cpu_map, it is an
uncore PMU, and forces events for such PMUs to be system-wide.

This is not true for arm/arm64 systems, which can have heterogeneous
CPUs. To account for this, multiple CPU PMUs are exposed, each with a
"cpus" field under sysfs, which the perf tool parses into a cpu_map. ARM
PMUs do not have a "cpumask" file, and only have a "cpus" file. For the
gory details as to why, see commit:

 7e3fcffe95 ("perf pmu: Support alternative sysfs cpumask")

Given all of this, we can instead identify uncore PMUs by explicitly
checking for a "cpumask" file, and restore arm/arm64 PMU support back to
a working state. This patch does so, adding a new perf_pmu::is_uncore
field, and splitting the existing cpumask parsing so that it can be
reused.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: 4.12+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: e3ba76deef ("perf tools: Force uncore events to system wide monitoring)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507315102-5942-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
History 2017-10-09 15:48:46 -03:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
block block: fix a crash caused by wrong API 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2017-10-05 10:28:12 -07:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-10-04 09:30:50 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
lib lib/ratelimit.c: use deferred printk() version 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: define find_{smallest|biggest}_section_pfn as unsigned long 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 08:40:09 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: fix ignoring cover-letter logic 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools perf pmu: Unbreak perf record for arm/arm64 with events with explicit PMU 2017-10-09 15:48:46 -03:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.14-rc 2017-10-04 17:16:05 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc3 2017-10-01 14:54:54 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.