[PATCH] arm_pmu: Validate single/group leader events

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Apr 11 07:14:03 PDT 2022


On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:04:26AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 03:33:30PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > In the case where there is only a cycle counter available (i.e.
> > PMCR_EL0.N is 0) and an event other than CPU cycles is opened, the open
> > should fail as the event can never possibly be scheduled. However, the
> > event validation when an event is opened is skipped when the group
> > leader is opened. Fix this by always validating the group leader events.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Al Grant <al.grant at arm.com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> 
> This looks obviously correct to me, so FWIW:
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Thanks.

> Just to check, have you tested this (e.g. by running on a platform with
> PMCR_EL0.N == 0, or hacking the PMU probing to report just the cycle counter)

Yes, tested on FVP with 0 counters running the libperf evsel userspace 
access tests as that tries both the cycle counter and instruction 
counts.

Rob



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