Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm-cci: Fix CCI PMU event validation

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Mar 17 2015 - 14:52:56 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:18:55PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
>
> We mask the event with the CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK, before passing
> the config to pmu_validate_hw_event(), which causes extra bits
> to be ignored and qualifies an invalid event code as valid.
>
> e.g,
> $ perf stat -a -C 0 -e CCI_400/config=0x1ff,name=cycles/ sleep 1
> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>
> 506951142 cycles
>
> 1.013879626 seconds time elapsed
>
> where, cycles has an event coding of 0xff. This patch also removes
> the unnecessary 'event' mask in pmu_write_register, since the config_base
> is set by the pmu code after the event is validated.
>
> Changes since V2:
> - Switch to input unsigned long for pmu_validate_hw_event()
>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> index 581190d..89c86e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> @@ -179,12 +179,15 @@ enum cci400_perf_events {
> #define CCI_REV_R1_MASTER_PORT_MIN_EV 0x00
> #define CCI_REV_R1_MASTER_PORT_MAX_EV 0x11
>
> -static int pmu_validate_hw_event(u8 hw_event)
> +static int pmu_validate_hw_event(unsigned long hw_event)
> {
> u8 ev_source = CCI_PMU_EVENT_SOURCE(hw_event);
> u8 ev_code = CCI_PMU_EVENT_CODE(hw_event);
> int if_type;
>
> + if (hw_event & ~CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK)
> + return -ENOENT;

Given that you want to build this for arm64, shouldn't CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK
be an unsigned long too (i.e. 0xffUL)? Otherwise you won't detect set bits
in the upper word here.

Will
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