On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:27:22PM +0000, Andrew Murray wrote: > @@ -393,9 +386,8 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event) > /* > * Check whether we need to exclude the counter from certain modes. > */ > + if (armpmu->set_event_filter && > + armpmu->set_event_filter(hwc, &event->attr)) { > pr_debug("ARM performance counters do not support " > "mode exclusion\n"); > return -EOPNOTSUPP; This then requires all set_event_filter() implementations to check all the various exclude options; also, set_event_filter() failing then returns with -EOPNOTSUPP instead of the -EINVAL the CAP_NO_EXCLUDE generates, which is again inconsitent. If I look at (the very first git-grep found me) armv7pmu_set_event_filter(), then I find it returning -EPERM (again inconsistent but irrelevant because the actual value is not preserved) for exclude_idle. But it doesn't seem to check exclude_host at all for example. > @@ -867,6 +859,9 @@ int armpmu_register(struct arm_pmu *pmu) > if (ret) > return ret; > > + if (!pmu->set_event_filter) > + pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE; > + > ret = perf_pmu_register(&pmu->pmu, pmu->name, -1); > if (ret) > goto out_destroy; > -- > 2.7.4 >