[REGRESSION][BISECT] perf/core: Remove pmu linear searching code

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Mon Jun 5 03:17:09 PDT 2023


On 05/06/2023 12:14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 11:27:31AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
>> That said; given that this commit has been tagged twice now, I suppose I
>> should go revert it and we'll try again after a more thorough audit.
> 
> I'll go queue this then...
> 
> ---
> Subject: perf: Re-instate the linear PMU search
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Date: Mon Jun  5 11:42:39 CEST 2023
> 
> Full revert of commit 9551fbb64d09 ("perf/core: Remove pmu linear
> searching code").
> 
> Some architectures (notably arm/arm64) still relied on the linear
> search in order to find the PMU that consumes
> PERF_TYPE_{HARDWARE,HW_CACHE,RAW}.
> 
> This will need a more thorought audit and clean.
> 
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>

Thanks.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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