This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 7663/1: perf: fix ARMv7 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit to the 3.8-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: arm-7663-1-perf-fix-armv7-evtype_mask-to-include-nsh-bit.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f2fe09b055e2549de41fb107b34c60bac4a1b0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:49:11 +0100 Subject: ARM: 7663/1: perf: fix ARMv7 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit f2fe09b055e2549de41fb107b34c60bac4a1b0cf upstream. Masked out PMXEVTYPER.NSH means that we can't enable profiling at PL2, regardless of the settings in the HDCR. This patch fixes the broken mask. Reported-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a7_perf_cach /* * PMXEVTYPER: Event selection reg */ -#define ARMV7_EVTYPE_MASK 0xc00000ff /* Mask for writable bits */ +#define ARMV7_EVTYPE_MASK 0xc80000ff /* Mask for writable bits */ #define ARMV7_EVTYPE_EVENT 0xff /* Mask for EVENT bits */ /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are queue-3.8/arm-7659-1-mm-make-mm-context.id-an-atomic64_t-variable.patch queue-3.8/arm-7663-1-perf-fix-armv7-evtype_mask-to-include-nsh-bit.patch queue-3.8/arm-7658-1-mm-fix-race-updating-mm-context.id-on-asid-rollover.patch queue-3.8/arm-7654-1-preserve-l_pte_valid-in-pte_modify.patch queue-3.8/arm-7657-1-head-fix-swapper-and-idmap-population-with-lpae-and-big-endian.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html