[PATCH 2/2] perf: arm_spe: Enable CONTEXT packets if profiling in CPU mode

German Gomez german.gomez at arm.com
Thu Jan 13 09:54:17 PST 2022


Enable CONTEXT packets in SPE traces if the profiler runs in CPU mode.

Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez at arm.com>
---
 drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
index 8515bf85c..7d9a7fa4f 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	    !(spe_pmu->features & SPE_PMU_FEAT_FILT_LAT))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	spe_pmu->pmscr_cx = perfmon_capable();
+	spe_pmu->pmscr_cx = perfmon_capable() || (event->cpu != -1);
 	reg = arm_spe_event_to_pmscr(event);
 	if (!perfmon_capable() &&
 	    (reg & (BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_PA_SHIFT) |
-- 
2.25.1




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