Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86/intel/ds: fix EVENT vs. UEVENT PEBS constraints

[Ingo Molnar]

* Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch fixes an issue revealed by the following commit:
> Commit 6b89d4c1ae85 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix INTEL_FLAGS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT* masking")
> 
> That patch modified INTEL_FLAGS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT() to only look at the event code
> when matching a constraint. If code+umask were needed, then the
> INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT() macro was needed instead.
> This broke with some of the constraints for PEBS events.
> Several of them, including the one used for cycles:p, cycles:pp, cycles:ppp
> fell in that category and caused the event to be rejected in PEBS mode.
> In other words, on some platforms a cmdline such as:
> 
>   $ perf top -e cycles:pp
> 
>   would fail with EINVAL.
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by properly using INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT()
> when needed in the PEBS constraint tables.
> 
> In v2:
>   - add fixes for Core2, Nehalem, Silvermont, and Atom
> 
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Thanks Stephane for the quick fixes!

	Ingo