Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] perf: arm_cspmu: Support implementation specific event validation

[Robin Murphy]

On 2023-06-01 04:01, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
> Some platforms may use e.g. different filtering mechanism and, thus,
> may need different way to validate the events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 4 ++++
>   drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.h | 2 ++
>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> index b4c4ef81c719..a26f484e06b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> @@ -593,6 +593,10 @@ static int arm_cspmu_get_event_idx(struct arm_cspmu_hw_events *hw_events,
>   	if (idx >= cspmu->num_logical_ctrs)
>   		return -EAGAIN;
>   
> +	if (cspmu->impl.ops.validate_event &&
> +	    !cspmu->impl.ops.validate_event(cspmu, event))
> +		return -EAGAIN;

Seems like this should be -EINVAL, or maybe the callback should return 
int so it can make its own distinction (yes, I know the outer logic 
doesn't actually propagate it, but there's no reason that couldn't 
improve at some point as well).

Another thought is that once we get into imp-def conditions for whether 
an event is valid in itself, we presumably also need to consider imp-def 
conditions for whether a given pair of events are compatible to be grouped?

Thanks,
Robin.

> +
>   	set_bit(idx, hw_events->used_ctrs);
>   
>   	return idx;
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.h b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.h
> index 4a29b921f7e8..0e5c316c96f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.h
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.h
> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ struct arm_cspmu_impl_ops {
>   	void (*set_ev_filter)(struct arm_cspmu *cspmu,
>   			      struct hw_perf_event *hwc,
>   			      u32 filter);
> +	/* Implementation specific event validation */
> +	bool (*validate_event)(struct arm_cspmu *cspmu, struct perf_event *new);
>   	/* Hide/show unsupported events */
>   	umode_t (*event_attr_is_visible)(struct kobject *kobj,
>   					 struct attribute *attr, int unused);