On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 05:17:02PM -0400, Neil Leeder wrote:
> The check for column exclusion did not verify that the event being
> checked was an L2 event, and not a software event.
> Software events should not be checked for column exclusion.
> This resulted in a group with both software and L2 events sometimes
> incorrectly rejecting the L2 event for column exclusion and
> not counting it.
>
> Add a check for PMU type before applying column exclusion logic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Leeder <nlee...@codeaurora.org>
This looks correct, so:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
Should this have:
Fixes: 21bdbb7102edeaeb ("perf: add qcom l2 cache perf events driver")
... ?
> ---
> drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
> index c259848..b242cce 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
> @@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ static int l2_cache_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
> }
>
> if ((event != event->group_leader) &&
> + !is_software_event(event->group_leader) &&
> (L2_EVT_GROUP(event->group_leader->attr.config) ==
> L2_EVT_GROUP(event->attr.config))) {
> dev_dbg_ratelimited(&l2cache_pmu->pdev->dev,
> @@ -558,6 +559,7 @@ static int l2_cache_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
> list_for_each_entry(sibling, &event->group_leader->sibling_list,
> group_entry) {
> if ((sibling != event) &&
> + !is_software_event(sibling) &&
> (L2_EVT_GROUP(sibling->attr.config) ==
> L2_EVT_GROUP(event->attr.config))) {
> dev_dbg_ratelimited(&l2cache_pmu->pdev->dev,
It's unfortunate that we duplicate the checks for the leader and
siblings, but that's not a new problem, and we can fix that in a
follow-up patch.
Thanks,
Mark.
