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authorAlexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>2019-10-22 17:04:11 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-28 18:29:03 +0100
commit21c1c5f146f77d2efc62917bf3cc95d955637410 (patch)
tree48dd746442d86d04534359e3dc09ab500ace891a /tools/objtool
parent3cc1ac2f0bce50a37b1f85ad89e968f49ee3494a (diff)
ARC: perf: Accommodate big-endian CPU
commit 5effc09c4907901f0e71e68e5f2e14211d9a203f upstream. 8-letter strings representing ARC perf events are stores in two 32-bit registers as ASCII characters like that: "IJMP", "IALL", "IJMPTAK" etc. And the same order of bytes in the word is used regardless CPU endianness. Which means in case of big-endian CPU core we need to swap bytes to get the same order as if it was on little-endian CPU. Otherwise we're seeing the following error message on boot: ------------------------->8---------------------- ARC perf : 8 counters (32 bits), 40 conditions, [overflow IRQ support] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arc_pct/events/pmji' CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3 Stack Trace: arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc dump_stack+0x64/0x80 sysfs_warn_dup+0x46/0x58 sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0xb2/0x168 create_files+0x70/0x2a0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/events/core.c:12144 perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0 Failed to register pmu: arc_pct, reason -17 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3 Stack Trace: arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc dump_stack+0x64/0x80 __warn+0x9c/0xd4 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x22/0x2c perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0 ---[ end trace a75fb9a9837bd1ec ]--- ------------------------->8---------------------- What happens here we're trying to register more than one raw perf event with the same name "PMJI". Why? Because ARC perf events are 4 to 8 letters and encoded into two 32-bit words. In this particular case we deal with 2 events: * "IJMP____" which counts all jump & branch instructions * "IJMPC___" which counts only conditional jumps & branches Those strings are split in two 32-bit words this way "IJMP" + "____" & "IJMP" + "C___" correspondingly. Now if we read them swapped due to CPU core being big-endian then we read "PMJI" + "____" & "PMJI" + "___C". And since we interpret read array of ASCII letters as a null-terminated string on big-endian CPU we end up with 2 events of the same name "PMJI". Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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