From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:03:46 +0000 Subject: [bug report] perf/x86/intel: Add INST_RETIRED.ALL workarounds Message-Id: <20180315090346.GA23080@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Hello Andi Kleen, The patch 294fe0f52a44: "perf/x86/intel: Add INST_RETIRED.ALL workarounds" from Feb 17, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning: arch/x86/events/intel/core.c:3213 bdw_limit_period() warn: was expecting a 64 bit value instead of '63' arch/x86/events/intel/core.c 3207 static u64 bdw_limit_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 left) ^^^^^^^^ 3208 { 3209 if ((event->hw.config & INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) = 3210 X86_CONFIG(.event=0xc0, .umask=0x01)) { 3211 if (left < 128) 3212 left = 128; 3213 left &= ~0x3fu; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You're clearing the high 32 bits as well as the low 6. It should be ~0x3full. 3214 } 3215 return left; 3216 } regards, dan carpenter