On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:18:55PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> > > We mask the event with the CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK, before passing > the config to pmu_validate_hw_event(), which causes extra bits > to be ignored and qualifies an invalid event code as valid. > > e.g, > $ perf stat -a -C 0 -e CCI_400/config=0x1ff,name=cycles/ sleep 1 > Performance counter stats for 'system wide': > > 506951142 cycles > > 1.013879626 seconds time elapsed > > where, cycles has an event coding of 0xff. This patch also removes > the unnecessary 'event' mask in pmu_write_register, since the config_base > is set by the pmu code after the event is validated. > > Changes since V2: > - Switch to input unsigned long for pmu_validate_hw_event() > > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 10 ++++++---- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c > index 581190d..89c86e9 100644 > --- a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c > +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c > @@ -179,12 +179,15 @@ enum cci400_perf_events { > #define CCI_REV_R1_MASTER_PORT_MIN_EV 0x00 > #define CCI_REV_R1_MASTER_PORT_MAX_EV 0x11 > > -static int pmu_validate_hw_event(u8 hw_event) > +static int pmu_validate_hw_event(unsigned long hw_event) > { > u8 ev_source = CCI_PMU_EVENT_SOURCE(hw_event); > u8 ev_code = CCI_PMU_EVENT_CODE(hw_event); > int if_type; > > + if (hw_event & ~CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK) > + return -ENOENT; Given that you want to build this for arm64, shouldn't CCI_PMU_EVENT_MASK be an unsigned long too (i.e. 0xffUL)? Otherwise you won't detect set bits in the upper word here. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html