[PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/perf: Fix the power9 event alternatives array to have correct sort order

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Apr 19 00:55:19 AEST 2022


When scheduling a group of events, there are constraint checks
done to make sure all events can go in a group. Example, one of
the criteria is that events in a group cannot use same PMC.
But platform specific PMU supports alternative event for some
of the event codes. During perf_event_open, if any event
group doesn't match constraint check criteria, further lookup
is done to find alternative event.

By current design, the array of alternatives events in PMU
code is expected to be sorted by column 0. This is because in
find_alternative() function, the return criteria is based on
event code comparison. ie "event < ev_alt[i][0])". This
optimisation is there since find_alternative() can get called
multiple times. In power9 PMU code, the alternative event array
is not sorted list and hence there is breakage in finding
alternative event.

To work with existing logic, fix the alternative event array
to be sorted by column 0 for power9-pmu.c

Fixes: 91e0bd1e6251 ("powerpc/perf: Add PM_LD_MISS_L1 and PM_BR_2PATH to power9 event list")
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog:
 Added Fixes tag and reworded commit message.
 Added Reviewed-by from Maddy.

 arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
index c9eb5232e68b..c393e837648e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ int p9_dd22_bl_ev[] = {
 
 /* Table of alternatives, sorted by column 0 */
 static const unsigned int power9_event_alternatives[][MAX_ALT] = {
-	{ PM_INST_DISP,			PM_INST_DISP_ALT },
-	{ PM_RUN_CYC_ALT,		PM_RUN_CYC },
-	{ PM_RUN_INST_CMPL_ALT,		PM_RUN_INST_CMPL },
-	{ PM_LD_MISS_L1,		PM_LD_MISS_L1_ALT },
 	{ PM_BR_2PATH,			PM_BR_2PATH_ALT },
+	{ PM_INST_DISP,			PM_INST_DISP_ALT },
+	{ PM_RUN_CYC_ALT,               PM_RUN_CYC },
+	{ PM_LD_MISS_L1,                PM_LD_MISS_L1_ALT },
+	{ PM_RUN_INST_CMPL_ALT,         PM_RUN_INST_CMPL },
 };
 
 static int power9_get_alternatives(u64 event, unsigned int flags, u64 alt[])
-- 
2.35.1



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