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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:46:46AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:26 PM Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 03:51:09PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > > +static int emulate_pmu(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 insn) > > > +{ > > > + u32 rt; > > > + u32 pmuserenr; > > > + > > > + rt = aarch64_insn_decode_register(AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RT, insn); > > > + pmuserenr = read_sysreg(pmuserenr_el0); > > > + > > > + if ((pmuserenr & (ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_ER|ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_CR)) != > > > + (ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_ER|ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_CR)) > > > + return -EINVAL; > > > + > > > + > > > + /* > > > + * Userspace is expected to only use this in the context of the scheme > > > + * described in the struct perf_event_mmap_page comments. > > > + * > > > + * Given that context, we can only get here if we got migrated between > > > + * getting the register index and doing the MSR read. This in turn > > > + * implies we'll fail the sequence and retry, so any value returned is > > > + * 'good', all we need is to be non-fatal. > > > + * > > > + * The choice of the value 0 is comming from the fact that when > > > + * accessing a register which is not counting events but is accessible, > > > + * we get 0. > > > + */ > > > + pt_regs_write_reg(regs, rt, 0); > > > > Hmm... this feels pretty fragile since, although we may expect userspace only > > to trigger this in the context of the specific perf use-case, we don't have > > a way to detect that, so the ABI we're exposing is that EL0 accesses to > > non-existent counters will return 0. I don't really think that's something > > we want to commit to. > > > > When restartable sequences were added to the kernel, one of the proposed > > use-cases was to allow PMU access on big/little systems, because the > > sequence will abort on preemption. Taking that approach removes the need > > for this emulation hook entirely. Is that something we can rely on instead > > of this emulation hook? > > So back to the RFC version[1]!? That would mean pulling librseq into > the kernel based on the prior discussion. It doesn't look like that > has happened yet. Yeah, or just don't bother supporting heterogeneous systems with this for now. > Why not just drop the undef hook? For heterogeneous systems, we > require userspace to pin itself to cores for a specific PMU. See patch > 9. If userspace fails to do that, then it gets to keep the pieces. Dropping it works too! Will _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel