Re: [PATCH 6.12 470/826] perf stat: Uniquify event name improvements

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:54:15AM +0000, James Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/12/2024 5:24 pm, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > On 03.12.24 15:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit 057f8bfc6f7070577523d1e3081081bbf4229c1c ]
> > > 
> > > Without aggregation on Intel:
> > 
> > My 6.11.y-rc and 6.12.y-rc builds for Fedora failed when building perf.
> > I did not bisect, but from a brief look at the error message (see
> > below) I suspect it might be caused by this patch, which is the
> > second of the patch-set "Event parsing fixes":
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240926144851.245903-1-james.clark@linaro.org/
> > 
> > To my untrained eyes and from a quick look I guess the first patch
> > in the series needs to be backported as well:
> > perf evsel: Add alternate_hw_config and use in evsel__match
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240926144851.245903-2-james.clark@linaro.org/
> > 
> > This is 22a4db3c36034e ("perf evsel: Add alternate_hw_config
> > and use in evsel__match") in mainline. I tried to cherry-pick it
> > on-top of 6.12.2-rc1, but there were a few small conflicts.
> > 
> > Ciao, Thorsten
> > 
> 
> Yes I imagine both commits are required. Another option is to not backport
> this one. It looks like it's mainly to fix a test, nothing is missing or
> wrong from the output, just the formatting is off.


Thanks, I'll just drop this patch from the stable queue for now.

greg k-h