[PATCH] perf: riscv: Fix selecting counters in legacy mode
Dmitry Shifrin
dmitry.shifrin at syntacore.com
Thu Aug 1 01:09:42 PDT 2024
Hi Samuel,
On Wed, 2024-07-31 at 02:37 -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On 2024-07-29 7:58 AM, Shifrin Dmitry wrote:
> > It is required to check event type before checking event config.
> > Events with the different types can have the same config.
> > This check is missed for legacy mode code
> >
> > For such perf usage:
> > sysctl -w kernel.perf_user_access=2
> > perf stat -e cycles,L1-dcache-loads --
> > driver will try to force both events to CYCLE counter.
> >
> > This commit implements event type check before forcing
> > events on the special counters.
>
> It looks like pmu_sbi_event_mapped() and pmu_sbi_event_mapped() have a similar
> bug where they do not check event->attr.type.
I am not sure that pmu_sbi_event_unmapped() and pmu_sbi_event_mapped() should be changed in the same way.
These functions in legacy mode just set/clear PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_READ_CNT for legacy events without any
mapping/unmapping. However in pmu_sbi_starting_cpu() CYCLE, TIME and INSTRET counters are always mapped to
user space in legacy mode. So it looks like in legacy mode we can just use
: if (event->hw.flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_LEGACY)
: return;
Thanks, Dmitry
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shifrin Dmitry <dmitry.shifrin at syntacore.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > index 36d128ff166f..bf14ab282e11 100644
> > --- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> > @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int pmu_sbi_ctr_get_idx(struct perf_event *event)
> > * but not in the user access mode as we want to use the other counters
> > * that support sampling/filtering.
> > */
> > - if (hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_LEGACY) {
> > + if ((hwc->flags & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_LEGACY) && (event->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)) {
> > if (event->attr.config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) {
> > cflags |= SBI_PMU_CFG_FLAG_SKIP_MATCH;
> > cmask = 1;
>
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