[PATCH v2 10/20] drivers/perf: perf/core: remove unnecessary checks for exclusion

[Andrew Murray]

For drivers that do not support context exclusion we do not
advertise the PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE capability. This ensures that
perf will prevent us from handling events where any exclusion
flags are set. Let's remove the now unnecessary check for
exclusion flags.

This change means that qcom_{l2|l3}_pmu will now also indicate that
they do not support exclude_{host|guest} and that xgene_pmu does
not also support exclude_idle and exclude_hv.

Note that for qcom_l2_pmu we now implictly return -EINVAL instead
of -EOPNOTSUPP. This change will result in the perf userspace
utility retrying the perf_event_open system call with fallback
event attributes that do not fail.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray at arm.com>
---
 drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c | 8 --------
 drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c | 7 -------
 drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c   | 5 -----
 3 files changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
index 842135c..518e18c 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.c
@@ -509,14 +509,6 @@ static int l2_cache_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
-	/* We cannot filter accurately so we just don't allow it. */
-	if (event->attr.exclude_user || event->attr.exclude_kernel ||
-	    event->attr.exclude_hv || event->attr.exclude_idle) {
-		dev_dbg_ratelimited(&l2cache_pmu->pdev->dev,
-				    "Can't exclude execution levels\n");
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	}
-
 	if (((L2_EVT_GROUP(event->attr.config) > L2_EVT_GROUP_MAX) ||
 	     ((event->attr.config & ~L2_EVT_MASK) != 0)) &&
 	    (event->attr.config != L2CYCLE_CTR_RAW_CODE)) {
diff --git a/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
index 2dc63d6..e28bd2f 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
@@ -495,13 +495,6 @@ static int qcom_l3_cache__event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	/*
-	 * There are no per-counter mode filters in the PMU.
-	 */
-	if (event->attr.exclude_user || event->attr.exclude_kernel ||
-	    event->attr.exclude_hv || event->attr.exclude_idle)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	/*
 	 * Sampling not supported since these events are not core-attributable.
 	 */
 	if (hwc->sample_period)
diff --git a/drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c
index 0e31f13..bdc55de 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c
@@ -914,11 +914,6 @@ static int xgene_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (is_sampling_event(event) || event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* SOC counters do not have usr/os/guest/host bits */
-	if (event->attr.exclude_user || event->attr.exclude_kernel ||
-	    event->attr.exclude_host || event->attr.exclude_guest)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (event->cpu < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	/*
-- 
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