The ARC PMU has the capability to exclude events based on context. Let's advertise that we support the PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE capability to ensure that perf doesn't prevent us from handling events where any exclusion flags are set. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c index 8aec462..cf8ea6d 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static int arc_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) .start = arc_pmu_start, .stop = arc_pmu_stop, .read = arc_pmu_read, + .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE, }; if (has_interrupts) { -- 2.7.4