Re: [PATCH RFC v1 2/3] perf: Add perf_event_attr::config3

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 15:31:51 EST


Em Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Rob Herring escreveu:
> Arm SPEv1.2 adds another 64-bits of event filtering control. As the
> existing perf_event_attr::configN fields are all used up for SPE PMU, an
> additional field is needed. Add a new 'config3' field.

Try not to have tools/ and kernel code in the same patch, else you'll
burden kernel developers into testing tools/, which so far has been
refrained.

First you get the kernel bits in, then tooling.

Locally of course you test it together.

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index 03b370062741..b53f9b958235 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER5 112 /* add: aux_watermark */
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER6 120 /* add: aux_sample_size */
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7 128 /* add: sig_data */
> +#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER8 136 /* add: config3 */
>
> /*
> * Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event:
> @@ -474,6 +475,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
> * truncated accordingly on 32 bit architectures.
> */
> __u64 sig_data;
> +
> + __u64 config3; /* extension of config2 */
> };
>
> /*
> diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index 581ed4bdc062..7fad17853310 100644
> --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ enum perf_event_read_format {
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER5 112 /* add: aux_watermark */
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER6 120 /* add: aux_sample_size */
> #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7 128 /* add: sig_data */
> +#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER8 136 /* add: config3 */
>
> /*
> * Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event:
> @@ -474,6 +475,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
> * truncated accordingly on 32 bit architectures.
> */
> __u64 sig_data;
> +
> + __u64 config3; /* extension of config2 */
> };
>
> /*
>
> --
> b4 0.10.0-dev

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- Arnaldo