8-letter strings representing ARC perf events are stores in two 32-bit registers as ASCII characters like that: "IJMP", "IALL", "IJMPTAK" etc. And the same order of bytes in the word is used regardless CPU endianness. Which means in case of big-endian CPU core we need to swap bytes to get the same order as if it was on little-endian CPU. Otherwise we're seeing the following error message on boot: ------------------------->8---------------------- ARC perf : 8 counters (32 bits), 40 conditions, [overflow IRQ support] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arc_pct/events/pmji' CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3 Stack Trace: arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc dump_stack+0x64/0x80 sysfs_warn_dup+0x46/0x58 sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0xb2/0x168 create_files+0x70/0x2a0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/events/core.c:12144 perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0 Failed to register pmu: arc_pct, reason -17 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3 Stack Trace: arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc dump_stack+0x64/0x80 __warn+0x9c/0xd4 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x22/0x2c perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0 ---[ end trace a75fb9a9837bd1ec ]--- ------------------------->8---------------------- What happens here we're trying to register more than one raw perf event with the same name "PMJI". Why? Because ARC perf events are 4 to 8 letters and encoded into two 32-bit words. In this particular case we deal with 2 events: * "IJMP____" which counts all jump & branch instructions * "IJMPC___" which counts only conditional jumps & branches Those strings are split in two 32-bit words this way "IJMP" + "____" & "IJMP" + "C___" correspondingly. Now if we read them swapped due to CPU core being big-endian then we read "PMJI" + "____" & "PMJI" + "___C". And since we interpret read array of ASCII letters as a null-terminated string on big-endian CPU we end up with 2 events of the same name "PMJI". Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.