Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] perf/x86/lbr: Simplify the exposure check for the LBR_INFO registers

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, Like Xu wrote:
> Hi Peter, would you help apply this one in your tip/perf tree,
> as it doesn't seem to be closely tied to the KVM changes. Thanks.
> 
> On 25/11/2022 12:05 pm, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> > From: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The x86_pmu.lbr_info is 0 unless explicitly initialized, so there's
> > no point checking x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format.
> > 
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 4 +---
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> > index 4dbde69c423b..e7caabfa1377 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
> > @@ -1606,12 +1606,10 @@ void __init intel_pmu_arch_lbr_init(void)
> >    */
> >   void x86_perf_get_lbr(struct x86_pmu_lbr *lbr)
> >   {
> > -	int lbr_fmt = x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format;
> > -
> >   	lbr->nr = x86_pmu.lbr_nr;
> >   	lbr->from = x86_pmu.lbr_from;
> >   	lbr->to = x86_pmu.lbr_to;
> > -	lbr->info = (lbr_fmt == LBR_FORMAT_INFO) ? x86_pmu.lbr_info : 0;
> > +	lbr->info = x86_pmu.lbr_info;

This stable-worthy a bug fix, no?  E.g. won't the existing code misreport lbr->info
if the format is LBR_FORMAT_INFO2?

> >   }
> >   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_perf_get_lbr);