[PATCH] perf cs-etm: Remove duplicate and incorrect aux size checks

From: James Clark
Date: Wed Dec 08 2021 - 06:55:07 EST


There are two checks, one is for size when running without admin, but
this one is covered by the driver and reported on in more detail here
(builtin-record.c):

pr_err("Permission error mapping pages.\n"
"Consider increasing "
"/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb,\n"
"or try again with a smaller value of -m/--mmap_pages.\n"
"(current value: %u,%u)\n",

This had the effect of artificially limiting the aux buffer size to a
value smaller than what was allowed because perf_event_mlock_kb wasn't
taken into account.

The second is to check for a power of two, but this is covered here
(evlist.c):

pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %s (%lu pages)\n",
buf, pages);

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 19 -------------------
1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
index 293a23bf8be3..8a3d54a86c9c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
@@ -407,25 +407,6 @@ static int cs_etm_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr,

}

- /* Validate auxtrace_mmap_pages provided by user */
- if (opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages) {
- unsigned int max_page = (KiB(128) / page_size);
- size_t sz = opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages * (size_t)page_size;
-
- if (!privileged &&
- opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages > max_page) {
- opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages = max_page;
- pr_err("auxtrace too big, truncating to %d\n",
- max_page);
- }
-
- if (!is_power_of_2(sz)) {
- pr_err("Invalid mmap size for %s: must be a power of 2\n",
- CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- }
-
if (opts->auxtrace_snapshot_mode)
pr_debug2("%s snapshot size: %zu\n", CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME,
opts->auxtrace_snapshot_size);
--
2.28.0