This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm: armv7: perf: fix armv7 ref-cycles error
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-armv7-perf-fix-armv7-ref-cycles-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <sta...@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From zhangzhiqiang.zh...@huawei.com Fri Oct 3 13:04:46 2014 From: zhangzhiqiang <zhangzhiqiang.zh...@huawei.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:44:22 +0800 Subject: arm: armv7: perf: fix armv7 ref-cycles error To: <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>, <lize...@huawei.com>, <wangn...@huawei.com>, <sta...@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Message-ID: <54251956.6010...@huawei.com> From: Zhiqiang Zhang <zhangzhiqiang.zh...@huawei.com> ref-cycles event is specially to Intel core, but can still used in arm architecture with the wrong return value with 3.10 stable. this patch fix the bug and make it return NOT SUPPORTED distinctly. In upstream this bug has been fixed by other way, which changes more than one file and more than 1000 lines. the primary commit is 6b7658ec8a100b608e59e3cde353434db51f5be0. besides we can not simply cherry-pick. Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Zhang <zhangzhiqiang.zh...@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: Christopher Covington <c...@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a8_perf_map[ [PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = ARMV7_A8_PERFCTR_STALL_ISIDE, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, + [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, }; static const unsigned armv7_a8_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX] @@ -281,6 +282,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a9_perf_map[ [PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = ARMV7_A9_PERFCTR_STALL_ICACHE, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = ARMV7_A9_PERFCTR_STALL_DISPATCH, + [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, }; static const unsigned armv7_a9_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX] @@ -405,6 +407,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a5_perf_map[ [PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, + [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, }; static const unsigned armv7_a5_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX] @@ -527,6 +530,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a15_perf_map [PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_BUS_CYCLES, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, + [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, }; static const unsigned armv7_a15_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX] @@ -651,6 +655,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a7_perf_map[ [PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_BUS_CYCLES, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, + [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED, }; static const unsigned armv7_a7_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX] Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhangzhiqiang.zh...@huawei.com are queue-3.16/arm-armv7-perf-fix-armv7-ref-cycles-error.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/