Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/perf: Infrastructure to support checking of attr.config*

From
Paul A. Clarke <hidden>
Date
2021-02-24 14:48:37
Reply to
Madhavan Srinivasan, 2021-02-24
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:58:39PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
Introduce code to support the checking of attr.config* for
values which are reserved for a given platform.
Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) configuration registers
have fileds that are reserved and specific values to bit fields
s/fileds/fields/
as reserved. Writing a none zero values in these fields
Should the previous sentences say something like "required values
for specific bit fields" or "specific bit fields that are reserved"?

s/none zero/non-zero/
or writing invalid value to bit fields will have unknown
behaviours.

Patch here add a generic call-back function "check_attr_config"
s/add/adds/ or "This patch adds ..." or just "Add ...".
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in "struct power_pmu", to be called in event_init to
check for attr.config* values for a given platform.
"check_attr_config" is valid only for raw event type.

Suggested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h |  6 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c              | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
index 00e7e671bb4b..dde97d7d9253 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ struct power_pmu {
 	 * the pmu supports extended perf regs capability
 	 */
 	int		capabilities;
+	/*
+	 * Function to check event code for values which are
+	 * reserved. Function takes struct perf_event as input,
+	 * since event code could be spread in attr.config*
+	 */
+	int		(*check_attr_config)(struct perf_event *ev);
 };

 /*
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 6817331e22ff..679d67506299 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1958,6 +1958,18 @@ static int power_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)

 		if (ppmu->blacklist_ev && is_event_blacklisted(ev))
 			return -EINVAL;
+		/*
+		 * PMU config registers have fileds that are
+		 * reserved and spacific values to bit fileds be reserved.
s/spacific/specific/
s/fileds/fields/
Same comment about "specific values to bit fields be reserved", and
rewording that to be more clear.
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+		 * This call-back will check the event code for same.
+		 *
+		 * Event type hardware and hw_cache will not value
+		 * invalid values in the event code which is not true
+		 * for raw event type.
I confess I don't understand what this means. (But it could be just me!)
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+		 */
+		if (ppmu->check_attr_config &&
+		    ppmu->check_attr_config(event))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		break;
 	default:
 		return -ENOENT;
-- 
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