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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:34:21 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@...el.com>,
        Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@...el.com>,
        Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@...el.com>,
        Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@...el.com>,
        Edward Baker <edward.baker@...el.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@...q.space>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
        Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@...wei.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Kang Minchul <tegongkang@...il.com>,
        Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 01/46] perf stat: Disable TopdownL1 on hybrid

Bugs with event parsing, event grouping and metrics causes the
TopdownL1 metricgroup to crash the perf command. Temporarily disable
the group if no events/metrics are spcecified.

Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index efda63f6bf32..be9677aa642f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1885,7 +1885,12 @@ static int add_default_attributes(void)
 		 * Add TopdownL1 metrics if they exist. To minimize
 		 * multiplexing, don't request threshold computation.
 		 */
-		if (metricgroup__has_metric("TopdownL1") &&
+		/*
+		 * TODO: TopdownL1 is disabled on hybrid CPUs to avoid a crashes
+		 * caused by exposing latent bugs. This is fixed properly in:
+		 * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bff481ba-e60a-763f-0aa0-3ee53302c480@linux.intel.com/
+		 */
+		if (metricgroup__has_metric("TopdownL1") && !perf_pmu__has_hybrid() &&
 		    metricgroup__parse_groups(evsel_list, "TopdownL1",
 					    /*metric_no_group=*/false,
 					    /*metric_no_merge=*/false,
@@ -1894,6 +1899,7 @@ static int add_default_attributes(void)
 					    stat_config.system_wide,
 					    &stat_config.metric_events) < 0)
 			return -1;
+
 		/* Platform specific attrs */
 		if (evlist__add_default_attrs(evsel_list, default_null_attrs) < 0)
 			return -1;
-- 
2.40.1.495.gc816e09b53d-goog

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