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Message-Id: <20150604114029.0D2AD140280@ozlabs.org>
Date:	Thu,  4 Jun 2015 21:40:28 +1000 (AEST)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/1] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Check support before registering

On Wed, 2015-20-05 at 23:34:16 UTC, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> >From 955102eacf035b19080dc659a15d9b8fbd8fae7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:47:58 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Check support before registering
>  PMU
> 
> We currently try to register the 24x7 PMU unconditionally. Not all
> Power systems support 24x7 counters (eg: Power7). On these systems
> we get a backtrace during boot when trying to register the 24x7 PMU.
> 
> Check if the hypervisor supports 24x7 counters before attempting to
> register the 24x7 PMU.
> 
> Reported-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gusld@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> Changelog[v2]
> 	- [Michael Ellerman] Simplify check with bogus parameters.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
> index ec2eb20..c04a332 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
> @@ -1268,12 +1268,33 @@ static struct pmu h_24x7_pmu = {
>  	.read        = h_24x7_event_read,
>  };
>  
> +/*
> + * Return 1 if we can access the 24x7 counter catalog from the hypervisor.
> + * Return 0 otherwise.

Comment is wrong.

> + */
> +static bool hv_has_24x7(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long hret;

ret would be fine.

> +
> +	hret = h_get_24x7_catalog_page(0, 0, 0);
> +
> +	if (hret != H_FUNCTION)
> +		pr_err("Error %ld reading catalog, disabling 24x7 PMU\n", hret);
> +
> +	return hret == 0;

I don't get what you're doing here.

You check for something other than H_FUNCTION, and print, and then you just
compare against 0. But I wouldn't ever expect that to return 0, because you
passed it bogus args.

The logic should be:

static bool is_24x7_supported(void)
{
	if (h_get_24x7_catalog_page(0, 0, 0) == H_FUNCTION)
		return false;

	return true;
}

>  static int hv_24x7_init(void)
>  {
>  	int r;
>  	unsigned long hret;
>  	struct hv_perf_caps caps;
>  
> +	if (!hv_has_24x7())
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +

This is no good. You're doing the check, which involves a hcall, before you
even check if you're running with a hypervisor (below).

>  	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR)) {
>  		pr_debug("not a virtualized system, not enabling\n");
>  		return -ENODEV;

cheers
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