linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf pmu: Fix event list for uncore PMUs

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:08:20 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
CC:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <mingo@...hat.com>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
        <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        <irogers@...gle.com>, <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf pmu: Fix event list for uncore PMUs

On 21/12/2021 20:48, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Now thinking a bit more I am not confident that this patch is a full fix.
>>
>> arm have heterogeneous CPU systems as well - which are not "hybrid" - and I
>> need to ensure that aliasing is still working properly there, as I think
>> that this following check would stop removing duplicates there:
>>
>> +	/* uncore PMUs */
>> +	if (!alias_a->is_cpu && !alias_b->is_cpu)
>> +		return true;
>> +	return false;
> I was about to process this, do you think its better to revert the
> original patch while this gets fixed?

I think that the v2 should now be ok.

@jirka, can you kindly help to check that?

BTW, my patch is based on v5.16-rc5 . I assumed that I would need to be 
based on acme/perf/urgent, but that seems to be based on 5.15

Thanks,
John