[PATCH 2/2] drivers/perf: riscv: Do not allow invalid raw event config

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Wed Dec 11 11:46:36 PST 2024


On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:04:46 PST (-0800), Atish Patra wrote:
> The SBI specification allows only lower 48bits of hpmeventX to be
> configured via SBI PMU. Currently, the driver masks of the higher
> bits but doesn't return an error. This will lead to an additional
> SBI call for config matching which should return for an invalid
> event error in most of the cases.
>
> However, if a platform(i.e Rocket and sifive cores) implements a
> bitmap of all bits in the event encoding this will lead to an
> incorrect event being programmed leading to user confusion.
>
> Report the error to the user if higher bits are set during the
> event mapping itself to avoid the confusion and save an additional
> SBI call.
>
> Suggested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> index 3473ba02abf3..fb6eda90f771 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
> @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static int pmu_sbi_event_map(struct perf_event *event, u64 *econfig)
>  {
>  	u32 type = event->attr.type;
>  	u64 config = event->attr.config;
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = -ENOENT;
>
>  	/*
>  	 * Ensure we are finished checking standard hardware events for
> @@ -536,8 +536,11 @@ static int pmu_sbi_event_map(struct perf_event *event, u64 *econfig)
>
>  		switch (config >> 62) {
>  		case 0:
> -			ret = RISCV_PMU_RAW_EVENT_IDX;
> -			*econfig = config & RISCV_PMU_RAW_EVENT_MASK;
> +			/* Return error any bits [48-63] is set  as it is not allowed by the spec */
> +			if (!(config & ~RISCV_PMU_RAW_EVENT_MASK)) {
> +				*econfig = config & RISCV_PMU_RAW_EVENT_MASK;
> +				ret = RISCV_PMU_RAW_EVENT_IDX;
> +			}
>  			break;
>  		case 2:
>  			ret = (config & 0xFFFF) | (SBI_PMU_EVENT_TYPE_FW << 16);
> @@ -554,7 +557,6 @@ static int pmu_sbi_event_map(struct perf_event *event, u64 *econfig)
>  		}
>  		break;
>  	default:
> -		ret = -ENOENT;
>  		break;
>  	}

This doesn't have a Fixes, is it 

    Fixes: f0c9363db2dd ("perf/riscv-sbi: Add platform specific firmware event handling")

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