On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 08:42:15AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> Since commit 0a892c1c9472 ("perf record: Add dummy event during system wide
> synthesis"),
> a dummy event is added to capture mmaps.
>
> But if we run perf-record as,
>
> # perf record -e cycles:p -IXMM0 -a -- sleep 1
> Error:
> dummy:HG: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try
> 'perf stat'
>
> The issue is, if we enable the extended regs (-IXMM0), but the
> pmu->capabilities is not set with PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS, the kernel
> will return -EOPNOTSUPP error.
>
> See following code pieces.
>
> /* in kernel/events/core.c */
> static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event)
>
> {
> ....
> if (!(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS) &&
> has_extended_regs(event))
> ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> ....
> }
>
> For software dummy event, the PMU should be not set with
> PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS. But unfortunately in current code, the dummy
> event has possibility to be set with PERF_REG_EXTENDED_MASK bit.
>
> In evsel__config, /* tools/perf/util/evsel.c */
>
> if (opts->sample_intr_regs) {
> attr->sample_regs_intr = opts->sample_intr_regs;
> }
>
> If we use -IXMM0, the attr>sample_regs_intr will be set with
> PERF_REG_EXTENDED_MASK bit.
>
> It doesn't make sense to set attr->sample_regs_intr for a
> software dummy event.
>
> This patch adds dummy event checking before setting
> attr->sample_regs_intr.
>
> After:
> # ./perf record -e cycles:p -IXMM0 -a -- sleep 1
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.413 MB perf.data (45 samples) ]
LGTM, Adrian (cc-ed) just added another check to the same place,
but it looks like both of them should be there:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
jirka
>
> Fixes: 0a892c1c9472 ("perf record: Add dummy event during system wide
> synthesis")
> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index 96e5171dce41..df3315543e86 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -1020,12 +1020,12 @@ void evsel__config(struct evsel *evsel, struct
> record_opts *opts,
> if (callchain && callchain->enabled && !evsel->no_aux_samples)
> evsel__config_callchain(evsel, opts, callchain);
>
> - if (opts->sample_intr_regs) {
> + if (opts->sample_intr_regs && !is_dummy_event(evsel)) {
> attr->sample_regs_intr = opts->sample_intr_regs;
> evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_INTR);
> }
>
> - if (opts->sample_user_regs) {
> + if (opts->sample_user_regs && !is_dummy_event(evsel)) {
> attr->sample_regs_user |= opts->sample_user_regs;
> evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_USER);
> }
> --
> 2.17.1
>
