[PATCH 6.1.y] perf/x86/intel: Remove anythread_deprecated bit from perf_capabilities
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-11 00:15:50
Subsystem:
performance events subsystem, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
From: Dapeng Mi <redacted>
[ Upstream commit 8767b4d73018bd3143f4c55b672064fad292f11b ]
AnyThread mode deprecation is enumerated by CPUID.0AH:EDX[15] instead of
PERF_CAPABILITIES MSR. It's not a good practice to define a bit to
represent "anythread deprecation" in perf_capabilities. It leads to the
anythread_deprecated bit could be overwritten by the real value of
PERF_CAPABILITIES MSR, just like the below code in update_pmu_cap() does.
if (!intel_pmu_broken_perf_cap()) {
/* Perf Metric (Bit 15) and PEBS via PT (Bit 16) are hybrid enumeration */
rdmsrq(MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES, hybrid(pmu, intel_cap).capabilities);
}
It leads to the anythread_deprecated bit is cleared to 0 and the "any"
attribute is incorrectly shown in the /sys/devices/cpu/format/ folder on
these support Perfmon v6 platforms, like Clearwater Forest.
$ grep . /sys/devices/cpu/format/*
/sys/devices/cpu/format/acr_mask:config2:0-63
/sys/devices/cpu/format/any:config:21
/sys/devices/cpu/format/cmask:config:24-31
So remove the anythread_deprecated bit from perf_capabilities structure
and directly depends on CPUID.0AH:EDX[15] to judge if anythread is
deprecated.
Fixes: cadbaa039b99 ("perf/x86/intel: Make anythread filter support conditional")
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zide Chen <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <redacted>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616044654.3468742-2-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 10 +++-------
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
index b1bc81bef4083..4b2b17d8d89d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c@@ -5971,12 +5971,6 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void) x86_add_quirk(intel_arch_events_quirk); /* Install first, so it runs last */ - if (version >= 5) { - x86_pmu.intel_cap.anythread_deprecated = edx.split.anythread_deprecated; - if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.anythread_deprecated) - pr_cont(" AnyThread deprecated, "); - } - /* * Install the hw-cache-events table: */
@@ -6715,8 +6709,10 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void) (u64)fixed_mask); /* AnyThread may be deprecated on arch perfmon v5 or later */ - if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.anythread_deprecated) + if (version >= 5 && edx.split.anythread_deprecated) { x86_pmu.format_attrs = intel_arch_formats_attr; + pr_cont("AnyThread deprecated, "); + } intel_pmu_check_event_constraints(x86_pmu.event_constraints, x86_pmu.num_counters,
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
index b95cab9846dd7..5f93316c60216 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ union perf_capabilities { u64 pebs_baseline:1; u64 perf_metrics:1; u64 pebs_output_pt_available:1; - u64 anythread_deprecated:1; + u64 __reserved:1; }; u64 capabilities; };
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