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Message-ID: <3905ee5b-79fe-408c-b776-125c51ac7824@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:33:44 +0000
From: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/14] perf evsel: Refactor
evsel__set_config_if_unset() arguments
On 14/01/2026 12:14 pm, James Clark wrote:
>
>
> On 13/01/2026 10:13 pm, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 03:14:27PM +0000, James Clark wrote:
>>> Make the evsel argument first to match the other evsel__* functions
>>> and remove the redundant pmu argument, which can be accessed via evsel.
>>
>> I haven't checked if this is the exactly where this takes place but
>> should be in this series, 32-bit build is broken:
>>
>> 3: almalinux:9-i386WARNING: image platform (linux/386) does not
>> match the expected platform (linux/amd64)
>> WARNING: image platform (linux/386) does not match the expected
>> platform (linux/amd64)
>> 21.72 almalinux:9-i386 : FAIL gcc version 11.4.1
>> 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3) (GCC)
>> 1378 | perf_pmu__format_pack(&bits, val, vp, /*zero=*/
>> true);
>> | ^~~~~
>> | |
>> | u64 * {aka long long
>> unsigned int *}
>> In file included from util/evsel.h:14,
>> from util/evsel.c:38:
>> util/pmu.h:282:43: note: expected ‘long unsigned int *’ but
>> argument is of type ‘u64 *’ {aka ‘long long unsigned int *’}
>> 282 | void perf_pmu__format_pack(unsigned long *format, __u64
>> value, __u64 *v,
>> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
>>
>>
>> What I have is in perf-tools-next/tmp.perf-tools-next BTW, I'll try and
>> fix this tomorrow if you don't do it first. :-)
>
> Taking a look, but I'm wondering if this is already not working
> properly. There are existing "unsigned long"s in pmu.c that operate on
> the config bits which is what I copied.
>
> On this target an unsigned long is 32bits but struct perf_event_attr-
> >configs are __u64. So it looks like it might leave the top bits unset
> sometimes.
>
> I'll look at a fix for that which should fix the compilation error at
> the same time.
False alarm, I was confusing a pointer to a single unsigned long with
what are actually DECLARE_BITMAP()s. So they're two longs in this case
for 64 bits.
I'll send a fix for the compilation issue and double check the patches
to make sure that misunderstanding hasn't caused any issues.
>
> Another question is, do we actually care about this platform?
>
>>
>> There are some more build problems in other containers/distros, I'll be
>> reporting as replies to the patches that looks related
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>>> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
>>> ---
>>> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 9 +++------
>>> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c | 2 +-
>>> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 3 +--
>>> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 4 ++--
>>> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 6 +++---
>>> 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm/
>>> util/cs-etm.c
>>> index ea891d12f8f4..c28208361d91 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
>>> @@ -441,10 +441,8 @@ static int cs_etm_recording_options(struct
>>> auxtrace_record *itr,
>>> * when a context switch happened.
>>> */
>>> if (!perf_cpu_map__is_any_cpu_or_is_empty(cpus)) {
>>> - evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_pmu, cs_etm_evsel,
>>> - "timestamp", 1);
>>> - evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_pmu, cs_etm_evsel,
>>> - "contextid", 1);
>>> + evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_evsel, "timestamp", 1);
>>> + evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_evsel, "contextid", 1);
>>> }
>>> /*
>>> @@ -453,8 +451,7 @@ static int cs_etm_recording_options(struct
>>> auxtrace_record *itr,
>>> * timestamp tracing.
>>> */
>>> if (opts->sample_time_set)
>>> - evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_pmu, cs_etm_evsel,
>>> - "timestamp", 1);
>>> + evsel__set_config_if_unset(cs_etm_evsel, "timestamp", 1);
>>> /* Add dummy event to keep tracking */
>>> err = parse_event(evlist, "dummy:u");
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/arch/
>>> arm64/util/arm-spe.c
>>> index d5ec1408d0ae..51014f8bff97 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
>>> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static void arm_spe_setup_evsel(struct evsel
>>> *evsel, struct perf_cpu_map *cpus)
>>> */
>>> if (!perf_cpu_map__is_any_cpu_or_is_empty(cpus)) {
>>> evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, CPU);
>>> - evsel__set_config_if_unset(evsel->pmu, evsel, "ts_enable", 1);
>>> + evsel__set_config_if_unset(evsel, "ts_enable", 1);
>>> }
>>> /*
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/arch/
>>> x86/util/intel-pt.c
>>> index b394ad9cc635..c131a727774f 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
>>> @@ -664,8 +664,7 @@ static int intel_pt_recording_options(struct
>>> auxtrace_record *itr,
>>> return 0;
>>> if (opts->auxtrace_sample_mode)
>>> - evsel__set_config_if_unset(intel_pt_pmu, intel_pt_evsel,
>>> - "psb_period", 0);
>>> + evsel__set_config_if_unset(intel_pt_evsel, "psb_period", 0);
>>> err = intel_pt_validate_config(intel_pt_pmu, intel_pt_evsel);
>>> if (err)
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>>> index a08130ff2e47..2cf87bc67df7 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>>> @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ void evsel__uniquify_counter(struct evsel *counter);
>>> ((((src) >> (pos)) & ((1ull << (size)) - 1)) << (63 - ((pos) +
>>> (size) - 1)))
>>> u64 evsel__bitfield_swap_branch_flags(u64 value);
>>> -void evsel__set_config_if_unset(struct perf_pmu *pmu, struct evsel
>>> *evsel,
>>> - const char *config_name, u64 val);
>>> +void evsel__set_config_if_unset(struct evsel *evsel, const char
>>> *config_name,
>>> + u64 val);
>>> bool evsel__is_offcpu_event(struct evsel *evsel);
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>>> index 956ea273c2c7..e87c12946d71 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>>> @@ -1382,8 +1382,8 @@ bool evsel__is_aux_event(const struct evsel
>>> *evsel)
>>> * something to true, pass 1 for val rather than a pre shifted value.
>>> */
>>> #define field_prep(_mask, _val) (((_val) << (ffsll(_mask) - 1)) &
>>> (_mask))
>>> -void evsel__set_config_if_unset(struct perf_pmu *pmu, struct evsel
>>> *evsel,
>>> - const char *config_name, u64 val)
>>> +void evsel__set_config_if_unset(struct evsel *evsel, const char
>>> *config_name,
>>> + u64 val)
>>> {
>>> u64 user_bits = 0, bits;
>>> struct evsel_config_term *term = evsel__get_config_term(evsel,
>>> CFG_CHG);
>>> @@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ void evsel__set_config_if_unset(struct perf_pmu
>>> *pmu, struct evsel *evsel,
>>> if (term)
>>> user_bits = term->val.cfg_chg;
>>> - bits = perf_pmu__format_bits(pmu, config_name);
>>> + bits = perf_pmu__format_bits(evsel->pmu, config_name);
>>> /* Do nothing if the user changed the value */
>>> if (bits & user_bits)
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.34.1
>>>
>
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