Re: [REGRESSION][BISECT] perf/core: Remove pmu linear searching code

[Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>]

On 05-Jun-23 12:40 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 01:38:10PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> #regzbot introduced: 9551fbb64d09
>>
>> Bisect pointed to commit 9551fbb64d09 ("perf/core: Remove pmu linear
>> searching code") as first one where all hardware events are gone from
>> perf for ARMv7 Exynos5422 board.
> 
> I think that commit 9551fbb64d09 is just wrong.
> 
> The commit message asserts:
> 
>   Searching for the right pmu by iterating over all pmus is no longer
>   required since all pmus now *must* be present in the 'pmu_idr' list.
>   So, remove linear searching code.
> 
> ... and while each PMU has *some* entry in the pmu_idr list, for its dynamic
> type, that means that events with other types (e.g. PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE or
> PERF_TYPE_RAW) will fail to find a PMU in the IDR whereas they'd previously
> have been accepted by a PMU during the subsequent iteration over all PMUs.

Not sure I follow.

PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE are aliased to PERF_TYPE_RAW in
perf_init_event(). And PERF_TYPE_RAW should be present in pmu_idr if it
was registered using:

  perf_pmu_register(pmu, "name", PERF_TYPE_RAW);

In fact, all static pmu types (enum perf_type_id) are also added to pmu_idr.
See (type >= 0) checks in perf_pmu_register() code:

        if (type >= 0)
                max = type;

        ret = idr_alloc(&pmu_idr, pmu, max, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (ret < 0)
                goto free_pdc;

        WARN_ON(type >= 0 && ret != type);

Thanks,
Ravi