[RFC PATCH v7 05/28] perf: arm_spe_pmu: Add PMBIDR_EL1 and PMSIDR_EL1 to struct arm_spe_pmu
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
ljs at kernel.org
Thu Oct 15 08:12:27 PDT 2026
I think probably some kind of commit message would be good even for a
trivial change :)
On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 05:06:00PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> ---
> drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 3 +++
> include/linux/perf/arm_spe_pmu.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
> index 79c571a649d5..42ba0924bd02 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
> @@ -1095,6 +1095,7 @@ static void __arm_spe_pmu_dev_probe(void *info)
> "profiling buffer owned by higher exception level\n");
> return;
> }
> + spe_pmu->pmbidr_el1 = reg;
This doesn't seem to be used anywhere in the series?
>
> /* Minimum alignment. If it's out-of-range, then fail the probe */
> fld = FIELD_GET(PMBIDR_EL1_ALIGN, reg);
> @@ -1107,6 +1108,8 @@ static void __arm_spe_pmu_dev_probe(void *info)
>
> /* It's now safe to read PMSIDR and figure out what we've got */
> reg = read_sysreg_s(SYS_PMSIDR_EL1);
> + spe_pmu->pmsidr_el1 = reg;
> +
> if (FIELD_GET(PMSIDR_EL1_FE, reg))
> spe_pmu->features |= SPE_PMU_FEAT_FILT_EVT;
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_spe_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_spe_pmu.h
> index af86fd184050..97b14e236fcd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf/arm_spe_pmu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_spe_pmu.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ struct arm_spe_pmu {
> cpumask_t supported_cpus;
> struct hlist_node hotplug_node;
>
> + u64 pmbidr_el1;
Equally, this doesn't seem to be used anywhere in the series, maybe drop?
> + u64 pmsidr_el1;
This field is used in kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fds() and
kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fne():
bool kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fds(struct kvm *kvm)
{
...
return kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, PMSVer, V1P4) &&
FIELD_GET(PMSIDR_EL1_FDS, spe_pmu->pmsidr_el1);
}
bool kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fne(struct kvm *kvm)
{
...
return kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, PMSVer, V1P2) &&
FIELD_GET(PMSIDR_EL1_FnE, spe_pmu->pmsidr_el1);
}
So checking for FDS and FnE, but these are available as feature flags as
__arm_spe_pmu_dev_probe() gets these:
static void __arm_spe_pmu_dev_probe(void *info)
{
...
if (FIELD_GET(PMSIDR_EL1_FnE, reg))
spe_pmu->features |= SPE_PMU_FEAT_INV_FILT_EVT;
...
if (FIELD_GET(PMSIDR_EL1_FDS, reg))
spe_pmu->features |= SPE_PMU_FEAT_FDS;
...
}
And then kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fds() and kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fne() can be:
bool kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fds(struct kvm *kvm)
{
...
return kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, PMSVer, V1P4) &&
(spe_pmu->features & SPE_PMU_FEAT_FDS);
}
bool kvm_spe_has_feat_spe_fne(struct kvm *kvm)
{
...
return kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, PMSVer, V1P2) &&
(spe_pmu->features & SPE_PMU_FEAT_INV_FILT_EVT);
}
Right?
So it seems you could drop this patch from the series in general? Is there
another reason to get these fields?
Also - there seems to be a divergence in the naming there between FnE and
INV_FILT_EVT, is that intentional?
--
Cheers, Lorenzo
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