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. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c | 8 +------- arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c | 8 -------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c index 04b3bf7..b937a15 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c @@ -293,13 +293,7 @@ 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) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c index afe5b4c..ba92f9e 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; -- 2.7.4