This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf vendor events power9: Remove UTF-8 characters from JSON files to the 4.14-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: perf-vendor-events-power9-remove-utf-8-characters-fr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ee4716294ab4ee42342b2aecac2495e67c4e7ddd Author: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 28 16:59:08 2023 +0530 perf vendor events power9: Remove UTF-8 characters from JSON files [ Upstream commit 5d9df8731c0941f3add30f96745a62586a0c9d52 ] Commit 3c22ba5243040c13 ("perf vendor events powerpc: Update POWER9 events") added and updated power9 PMU JSON events. However some of the JSON events which are part of other.json and pipeline.json files, contains UTF-8 characters in their brief description. Having UTF-8 character could breaks the perf build on some distros. Fix this issue by removing the UTF-8 characters from other.json and pipeline.json files. Result without the fix: [command]# file -i pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/* pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/floating-point.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/metrics.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/nest_metrics.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json: application/json; charset=utf-8 pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json: application/json; charset=utf-8 pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pmc.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/translation.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii [command]# Result with the fix: [command]# file -i pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/* pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/floating-point.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/metrics.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/nest_metrics.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pmc.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/translation.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii [command]# Fixes: 3c22ba5243040c13 ("perf vendor events powerpc: Update POWER9 events") Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZBxP77deq7ikTxwG@xxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328112908.113158-1-kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json index 54cc3be00fc2d..0048c27d75f35 100644 --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json @@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ {, "EventCode": "0x45054", "EventName": "PM_FMA_CMPL", - "BriefDescription": "two flops operation completed (fmadd, fnmadd, fmsub, fnmsub) Scalar instructions only. " + "BriefDescription": "two flops operation completed (fmadd, fnmadd, fmsub, fnmsub) Scalar instructions only." }, {, "EventCode": "0x5090", @@ -2067,7 +2067,7 @@ {, "EventCode": "0xC0BC", "EventName": "PM_LSU_FLUSH_OTHER", - "BriefDescription": "Other LSU flushes including: Sync (sync ack from L2 caused search of LRQ for oldest snooped load, This will either signal a Precise Flush of the oldest snooped loa or a Flush Next PPC); Data Valid Flush Next (several cases of this, one example is store and reload are lined up such that a store-hit-reload scenario exists and the CDF has already launched and has gotten bad/stale data); Bad Data Valid Flush Next (might be a few cases of this, one example is a larxa (D$ hit) return data and dval but can't allocate to LMQ (LMQ full or other reason). Already gave dval but can't watch it for snoop_hit_larx. Need to take the “bad dval” back and flush all younger ops)" + "BriefDescription": "Other LSU flushes including: Sync (sync ack from L2 caused search of LRQ for oldest snooped load, This will either signal a Precise Flush of the oldest snooped loa or a Flush Next PPC); Data Valid Flush Next (several cases of this, one example is store and reload are lined up such that a store-hit-reload scenario exists and the CDF has already launched and has gotten bad/stale data); Bad Data Valid Flush Next (might be a few cases of this, one example is a larxa (D$ hit) return data and dval but can't allocate to LMQ (LMQ full or other reason). Already gave dval but can't watch it for snoop_hit_larx. Need to take the 'bad dval' back and flush all younger ops)" }, {, "EventCode": "0x5094", diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json index bc2db636dabf1..876292f69e1f6 100644 --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ {, "EventCode": "0x4D052", "EventName": "PM_2FLOP_CMPL", - "BriefDescription": "DP vector version of fmul, fsub, fcmp, fsel, fabs, fnabs, fres ,fsqrte, fneg " + "BriefDescription": "DP vector version of fmul, fsub, fcmp, fsel, fabs, fnabs, fres ,fsqrte, fneg" }, {, "EventCode": "0x1F142",