For drivers that do not support context exclusion let's advertise the PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE capability. This ensures that perf will prevent us from handling events where any exclusion flags are set. Let's also remove the now unnecessary check for exclusion flags. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c | 9 ++------- arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c | 9 +-------- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c index e49e068..fce4b42 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c @@ -294,13 +294,7 @@ static int mmdc_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - if (event->attr.exclude_user || - event->attr.exclude_kernel || - event->attr.exclude_hv || - event->attr.exclude_idle || - event->attr.exclude_host || - event->attr.exclude_guest || - event->attr.sample_period) + if (event->attr.sample_period) return -EINVAL; if (cfg < 0 || cfg >= MMDC_NUM_COUNTERS) @@ -456,6 +450,7 @@ static int mmdc_pmu_init(struct mmdc_pmu *pmu_mmdc, .start = mmdc_pmu_event_start, .stop = mmdc_pmu_event_stop, .read = mmdc_pmu_event_update, + .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE, }, .mmdc_base = mmdc_base, .dev = dev, diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c index afe5b4c..99bcd07 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c @@ -314,14 +314,6 @@ static int l2x0_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) return -EINVAL; - if (event->attr.exclude_user || - event->attr.exclude_kernel || - event->attr.exclude_hv || - event->attr.exclude_idle || - event->attr.exclude_host || - event->attr.exclude_guest) - return -EINVAL; - if (event->cpu < 0) return -EINVAL; @@ -544,6 +536,7 @@ static __init int l2x0_pmu_init(void) .del = l2x0_pmu_event_del, .event_init = l2x0_pmu_event_init, .attr_groups = l2x0_pmu_attr_groups, + .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE, }; l2x0_pmu_reset(); -- 2.7.4