linux-kernel - [PATCH] ARC: perf: Accommodate big-endian CPU

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Message-Id: <20191022140411.10193-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:04:11 +0300
From:   Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>
To:     linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARC: perf: Accommodate big-endian CPU

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@...opsys.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 861a8aea51f9..661fd842ea97 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -614,8 +614,8 @@ static int arc_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	/* loop thru all available h/w condition indexes */
 	for (i = 0; i < cc_bcr.c; i++) {
 		write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_CC_INDEX, i);
-		cc_name.indiv.word0 = read_aux_reg(ARC_REG_CC_NAME0);
-		cc_name.indiv.word1 = read_aux_reg(ARC_REG_CC_NAME1);
+		cc_name.indiv.word0 = le32_to_cpu(read_aux_reg(ARC_REG_CC_NAME0));
+		cc_name.indiv.word1 = le32_to_cpu(read_aux_reg(ARC_REG_CC_NAME1));

 		arc_pmu_map_hw_event(i, cc_name.str);
 		arc_pmu_add_raw_event_attr(i, cc_name.str);
-- 
2.16.2