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Message-ID: <354fcd14-e86a-fe51-2613-6194b85efd25@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:11:26 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, irogers@...gle.com,
        will@...nel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        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>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] arm_pmu: Remove unused
 PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS capability



On 7/24/23 19:14, James Clark wrote:
> Since commit bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") the
> relationship between perf_event_context and PMUs has changed so that
> the error scenario that PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS originally
> silenced no longer exists.
> 
> Remove the capability and associated comment to avoid confusion that it
> actually influences any perf core behavior. This change should be a
> no-op.
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>

> ---
>  drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> index 2e79201daa4a..d712a19e47ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> @@ -877,15 +877,12 @@ struct arm_pmu *armpmu_alloc(void)
>  		.attr_groups	= pmu->attr_groups,
>  		/*
>  		 * This is a CPU PMU potentially in a heterogeneous
> -		 * configuration (e.g. big.LITTLE). This is not an uncore PMU,
> -		 * and we have taken ctx sharing into account (e.g. with our
> -		 * pmu::filter callback and pmu::event_init group validation).
> -		 *
> +		 * configuration (e.g. big.LITTLE) so
>  		 * PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE is required to open
>  		 * PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events on a
>  		 * specific PMU.
>  		 */
> -		.capabilities	= PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS | PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS |
> +		.capabilities	= PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS |
>  				  PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE,
>  	};
>