This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: perf: fix ARMv8 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit to the 3.10-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: arm64-perf-fix-armv8-evtype_mask-to-include-nsh-bit.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 178cd9ce377232518ec17ff2ecab2e80fa60784c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:47:42 +0100 Subject: arm64: perf: fix ARMv8 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit 178cd9ce377232518ec17ff2ecab2e80fa60784c upstream. This is a port of f2fe09b055e2 ("ARM: 7663/1: perf: fix ARMv7 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit") to arm64, which fixes the broken evtype mask to include the NSH bit, allowing profiling at EL2. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static const unsigned armv8_pmuv3_perf_c /* * PMXEVTYPER: Event selection reg */ -#define ARMV8_EVTYPE_MASK 0xc00000ff /* Mask for writable bits */ +#define ARMV8_EVTYPE_MASK 0xc80000ff /* Mask for writable bits */ #define ARMV8_EVTYPE_EVENT 0xff /* Mask for EVENT bits */ /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/arm64-perf-fix-group-validation-when-using-enable_on_exec.patch queue-3.10/arm64-perf-fix-armv8-evtype_mask-to-include-nsh-bit.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