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commit fdbef8c4e68ad423416aa6cc93d1616d6f8ac5b3 upstream.
Commit 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
changes the input "value" type from 32-bit to 64-bit, which introduces the
following problem: ARMv7 PMU counters is 32-bit width, in big-endian mode,
write counter uses high 32-bit, which writes an incorrect value.
Before:
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
2.22 msec task-clock # 0.675 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
49 page-faults # 0.022 M/sec
2150476593 cycles # 966.663 GHz
2148588788 instructions # 1.00 insn per cycle
2147745484 branches # 965435.074 M/sec
2147508540 branch-misses # 99.99% of all branches
None of the above hw event counters are correct.
Solution:
"value" forcibly converted to 32-bit type before being written to PMU register.
After:
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
2.09 msec task-clock # 0.681 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
46 page-faults # 0.022 M/sec
2807301 cycles # 1.344 GHz
1060159 instructions # 0.38 insn per cycle
250496 branches # 119.914 M/sec
23192 branch-misses # 9.26% of all branches
Fixes: 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430012659.232110-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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