[PATCH v2 06/20] arc: perf/core: advertise PMU exclusion capability

Andrew Murray andrew.murray at arm.com
Mon Nov 26 22:12:22 AEDT 2018


The ARC PMU has the capability to exclude events based on
context. Let's advertise that we support the
PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE capability to ensure that perf doesn't
prevent us from handling events where any exclusion flags are
set.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray at arm.com>
---
 arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 8aec462..cf8ea6d 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static int arc_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		.start		= arc_pmu_start,
 		.stop		= arc_pmu_stop,
 		.read		= arc_pmu_read,
+		.capabilities	= PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE,
 	};
 
 	if (has_interrupts) {
-- 
2.7.4



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