This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Fix starting index value to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-perf-hv-gpci-fix-starting-index-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d2e96d1fa568af4cb5ea42c463eb35c67fd432ba Author: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Oct 3 13:19:39 2020 +0530 powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Fix starting index value [ Upstream commit 0f9866f7e85765bbda86666df56c92f377c3bc10 ] Commit 9e9f60108423f ("powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated") adds a framework for defining gpci counters. In this patch, they adds starting_index value as '0xffffffffffffffff'. which is wrong as starting_index is of size 32 bits. Because of this, incase we try to run hv-gpci event we get error. In power9 machine: command#: perf stat -e hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/ -C 0 -I 1000 event syntax error: '..bie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/' \___ value too big for format, maximum is 4294967295 This patch fix this issue and changes starting_index value to '0xffffffff' After this patch: command#: perf stat -e hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/ -C 0 -I 1000 1.000085786 1,024 hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/ 2.000287818 1,024 hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/ 2.439113909 17,408 hv_gpci/system_tlbie_count_and_time_tlbie_instructions_issued/ Fixes: 9e9f60108423 ("powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated") Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201003074943.338618-1-kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h index e608f9db12ddc..8965b4463d433 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci-requests.h @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ REQUEST(__field(0, 8, partition_id) #define REQUEST_NAME system_performance_capabilities #define REQUEST_NUM 0x40 -#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffffffffffff" +#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffff" #include I(REQUEST_BEGIN) REQUEST(__field(0, 1, perf_collect_privileged) __field(0x1, 1, capability_mask) @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ REQUEST(__field(0, 2, partition_id) #define REQUEST_NAME system_hypervisor_times #define REQUEST_NUM 0xF0 -#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffffffffffff" +#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffff" #include I(REQUEST_BEGIN) REQUEST(__count(0, 8, time_spent_to_dispatch_virtual_processors) __count(0x8, 8, time_spent_processing_virtual_processor_timers) @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ REQUEST(__count(0, 8, time_spent_to_dispatch_virtual_processors) #define REQUEST_NAME system_tlbie_count_and_time #define REQUEST_NUM 0xF4 -#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffffffffffff" +#define REQUEST_IDX_KIND "starting_index=0xffffffff" #include I(REQUEST_BEGIN) REQUEST(__count(0, 8, tlbie_instructions_issued) /*