Commit 353496cb authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/perf: pmuv3: don't expose SW_INCR event in sysfs



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The SW_INCR event is somewhat unusual, and depends on the specific HW
counter that it is programmed into. When programmed into PMEVCNTR<n>,
SW_INCR will count any writes to PMSWINC_EL0 with bit n set, ignoring
writes to SW_INCR with bit n clear.

Event rotation means that there's no fixed relationship between
perf_events and HW counters, so this isn't all that useful.

Further, we program PMUSERENR.{SW,EN}=={0,0}, which causes EL0 writes to
PMSWINC_EL0 to be trapped and handled as UNDEFINED, resulting in a
SIGILL to userspace.

Given that, it's not a good idea to expose SW_INCR in sysfs. Hide it as
we did for CHAIN back in commit:

  4ba2578f ("arm64: perf: don't expose CHAIN event in sysfs")

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204115847.2993026-1-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent aa28eecb
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