[PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Fix lbr event can placed into non lbr group

From: Luo Gengkun
Date: Sat Apr 12 2025 - 05:01:23 EST


The following perf command can trigger a warning on
intel_pmu_lbr_counters_reorder.

# perf record -e "{cpu-clock,cycles/call-graph="lbr"/}" -- sleep 1

The reason is that a lbr event are placed in non lbr group. And the
previous implememtation cannot force the leader to be a lbr event in this
case. And is_branch_counters_group will check if the group_leader supports
BRANCH_COUNTERS. So if a software event becomes a group_leader, which
hw.flags is -1, this check will alway pass.

To fix this problem, using has_branch_stack to judge if leader is lbr
event.

Fixes: 33744916196b ("perf/x86/intel: Support branch counters logging")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
index 09d2d66c9f21..c6b394019e54 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
@@ -4114,6 +4114,13 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
event->hw.flags |= PERF_X86_EVENT_NEEDS_BRANCH_STACK;
}

+ /*
+ * Force the leader to be a LBR event. So LBRs can be reset
+ * with the leader event. See intel_pmu_lbr_del() for details.
+ */
+ if (has_branch_stack(event) && !has_branch_stack(event->group_leader))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (branch_sample_counters(event)) {
struct perf_event *leader, *sibling;
int num = 0;
@@ -4157,13 +4164,6 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
~(PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL |
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COUNTERS)))
event->hw.flags &= ~PERF_X86_EVENT_NEEDS_BRANCH_STACK;
-
- /*
- * Force the leader to be a LBR event. So LBRs can be reset
- * with the leader event. See intel_pmu_lbr_del() for details.
- */
- if (!intel_pmu_needs_branch_stack(leader))
- return -EINVAL;
}

if (intel_pmu_needs_branch_stack(event)) {
--
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