[PATCH] perf: riscv: Fix selecting counters in legacy mode
Samuel Holland
samuel.holland at sifive.com
Wed Jul 31 00:37:40 PDT 2024
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.
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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