From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: vmolnaro@redhat.com, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
acme@redhat.com, mpetlan@redhat.com, james.clark@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf test record user-regs: Fix mask for vg register
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:33:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZW4pkLRGgfA7zotm@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231203061353.GA19079@leoy-huanghe>
Em Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 02:13:53PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 08:46:17PM +0100, vmolnaro@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
> >
> > The 'vg' register for arm64 shows up in --user_regs as available when
> > masking the variable AT_HWCAP with 1 << 22 returns '1' as done in
> > perf_regs.c. However, in subtests for support of SVE, the check for
> > the 'vg' register is done by masking the variable AT_HWCAP with the value
> > 0x200000 which is equals to 1 << 21 instead of 1 << 22. This results in
> > inconsistencies on certain systems where the test expects that the 'vg'
> > register is not operational when it is, and vice-versa.
> >
> > During the testing on a machine that the test expected not to have the
> > 'vg' register available, the perf record with option --user-regs showed
> > records for the 'vg' register together with all of the others, which
> > means that the mask for the subtest of perf_event_attr is off by one.
> > Change the value of the mask from 0x200000 to 0x400000 to correct it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
>
> LGTM, except I think it's good to add fix tag:
>
> Fixes: 9440ebdc333d ("perf test arm64: Add attr tests for new VG register")
>
> With above fix tag:
>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
b4 even collected the fixes, that I checked and is in tree, etc.
Thanks, applied.
- Arnaldo
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-01 19:46 [PATCH] perf test record user-regs: Fix mask for vg register vmolnaro
2023-12-03 6:13 ` Leo Yan
2023-12-04 19:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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