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Message-ID: <f50a219b-81da-4301-aea0-7a1e3e759c37@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:57:17 +0000
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To: Yang Jialong 杨佳龙 <jialong.yang@...ngroup.cn>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, shenghui.qu@...ngroup.cn,
ke.zhao@...ngroup.cn, zhijie.ren@...ngroup.cn,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/arm_smmuv3: Omit the two judgements which done in
framework
On 19/02/2024 6:37 am, Yang Jialong 杨佳龙 wrote:
>
>
> 在 2024/2/10 0:32, Robin Murphy 写道:
>> On 2024-02-09 4:09 pm, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:38:01PM +0800, JiaLong.Yang wrote:
>>>> 'event->attr.type != event->pmu->type' has been done in
>>>> core.c::perf_init_event() ,core.c::perf_event_modify_attr(), etc.
>>>>
>>>> This PMU is an uncore one. The core framework has disallowed
>>>> uncore-task events. So the judgement to event->cpu < 0 is no mean.
>>>
>>> It would be great to refer to the changes which added those checks to
>>> the perf core code. From reading the code myself, I can't convince
>>> myself
>>> that perf_try_init_event() won't call into the driver.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The two judgements have been done in kernel/events/core.c
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: JiaLong.Yang <jialong.yang@...ngroup.cn>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c | 8 --------
>>>> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> It looks like _many_ perf drivers have these checks, so if they really
>>> aren't needed, we can clean this up bveyond SMMU. However, as I said
>>> above, I'm not quite convinced we can drop them.
>>
>> Right, I think the logic prevents events with a specific PMU type
>> being offered to other PMUs, but as far as I'm aware doesn't apply the
>> other way round to stop generic events (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE etc.) being
>> offered to all PMUs, so it's those that system PMUs need to reject. >
>> It's been on my wishlist for a long time to have a capability flag to
>> say "I don't handle generic events, please only ever give me events of
>> my exact type" so we *can* truly factor this into the core.
>
>
> It's core framework's responsible to differ generic events and others,
> or uncore pmu and core pmu.
> Here we have flag PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE, PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE,
> PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE doing this.
>
> again:
> rcu_read_lock();
> pmu = idr_find(&pmu_idr, type);
> rcu_read_unlock();
> if (pmu) {
> if (event->attr.type != type && type != PERF_TYPE_RAW &&
> !(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE))
> goto fail; /* generic event with no ability pmu */
> This can avoid driver code (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type).
Now consider the other case below that, where "type" has not matched
anything registered, so "pmu" is NULL, and the event is then offered to
*every* registered PMU to see if anyone accepts it. Note that even CPU
PMUs don't always register as PERF_TYPE_RAW, and in particular arm_pmu
doesn't.
Thanks,
Robin.
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