Re: [REGRESSION][BISECT] perf/core: Remove pmu linear searching code

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 03:04:45PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> On 05-Jun-23 12:40 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 01:38:10PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> #regzbot introduced: 9551fbb64d09
> >>
> >> Bisect pointed to commit 9551fbb64d09 ("perf/core: Remove pmu linear
> >> searching code") as first one where all hardware events are gone from
> >> perf for ARMv7 Exynos5422 board.
> > 
> > I think that commit 9551fbb64d09 is just wrong.
> > 
> > The commit message asserts:
> > 
> >   Searching for the right pmu by iterating over all pmus is no longer
> >   required since all pmus now *must* be present in the 'pmu_idr' list.
> >   So, remove linear searching code.
> > 
> > ... and while each PMU has *some* entry in the pmu_idr list, for its dynamic
> > type, that means that events with other types (e.g. PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE or
> > PERF_TYPE_RAW) will fail to find a PMU in the IDR whereas they'd previously
> > have been accepted by a PMU during the subsequent iteration over all PMUs.
> 
> Not sure I follow.
> 
> PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE are aliased to PERF_TYPE_RAW in
> perf_init_event(). And PERF_TYPE_RAW should be present in pmu_idr if it
> was registered using:
> 
>   perf_pmu_register(pmu, "name", PERF_TYPE_RAW);

As I said, the PMUs get registered with a dynamic type, and there's no
registration with PERF_TYPE_RAW. On arm/arm64 systems, *every* CPU PMU gets
registered with:

	perf_pmu_register(pmu, name, -1);

... and *none* are registered with:

	perf_pmu_register(pmu, name, PERF_TYPE_RAW)

... so those all get a dynamic IDR type, and nothing gets placed into the IDR
for PERF_TYPE_RAW, etc. We rely on the linear search to find a PMU that can
handle PERF_TYPE_RAW, etc.

I appreciate that's not ideal, but it's how it has worked for almost a decade
now, so we can't change the userspace-visible behaviour.

Thanks,
Mark.