[PATCH V2 2/4] perf/core: Assert PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH does not overlap with generic flags

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Sun Sep 4 22:42:37 PDT 2022


This just ensures that PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH does not overlap with generic
hardware event flags.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 3f51fbf4a595..10e23a0f9db0 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ struct hw_perf_event_extra {
 #define PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH			0x000fffff
 #define PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_READ_CNT		0x80000000
 
+static_assert((PERF_EVENT_FLAG_USER_READ_CNT & PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH) == 0);
+
 /**
  * struct hw_perf_event - performance event hardware details:
  */
-- 
2.25.1




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