perf pmus: Add placeholder core PMU

If loading a core PMU fails, legacy hardware/cache events may segv due
to there being no PMU. Create a placeholder empty PMU for this
case. This was discussed in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230614151625.2077-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com/

Reported-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230627182834.117565-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ian Rogers
2023-06-27 11:28:34 -07:00
committed by Namhyung Kim
parent ad5f604e18
commit 628eaa4e87
3 changed files with 32 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -153,7 +153,12 @@ static void pmu_read_sysfs(bool core_only)
closedir(dir);
if (core_only) {
read_sysfs_core_pmus = true;
if (!list_empty(&core_pmus))
read_sysfs_core_pmus = true;
else {
if (perf_pmu__create_placeholder_core_pmu(&core_pmus))
read_sysfs_core_pmus = true;
}
} else {
read_sysfs_core_pmus = true;
read_sysfs_all_pmus = true;