On 1/26/2021 9:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:38:22PM -0800, kan.li...@linux.intel.com wrote:
@@ -2319,6 +2474,17 @@ static void __icl_update_topdown_event(struct perf_event 
*event,
  {
        u64 delta, last = 0;
+ /*
+        * Although the unsupported topdown events are not exposed to users,
+        * users may mistakenly use the unsupported events via RAW format.
+        * For example, using L2 topdown event, cpu/event=0x00,umask=0x84/,
+        * on Ice Lake. In this case, the scheduler follows the unknown
+        * event handling and assigns a GP counter to the event.
+        * Check the case, and avoid updating unsupported events.
+        */
+       if (event->hw.idx < INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED)
+               return;
+
        delta = icl_get_topdown_value(event, slots, metrics);
        if (last_slots)
                last = icl_get_topdown_value(event, last_slots, last_metrics);

Is this a separate patch?


I will move it to a separate patch.

Thanks,
Kan

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