perf_counter: fix type/event_id layout on big-endian systems
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:31:47 +0000 (15:31 +1100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:30:18 +0000 (09:30 +0200)
Impact: build fix for powerpc

Commit db3a944aca35ae61 ("perf_counter: revamp syscall input ABI")
expanded the hw_event.type field into a union of structs containing
bitfields.  In particular it introduced a type field and a raw_type
field, with the intention that the 1-bit raw_type field should
overlay the most-significant bit of the 8-bit type field, and in fact
perf_counter_alloc() now assumes that (or at least, assumes that
raw_type doesn't overlay any of the bits that are 1 in the values of
PERF_TYPE_{HARDWARE,SOFTWARE,TRACEPOINT}).

Unfortunately this is not true on big-endian systems such as PowerPC,
where bitfields are laid out from left to right, i.e. from most
significant bit to least significant.  This means that setting
hw_event.type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE will set hw_event.raw_type to 1.

This fixes it by making the layout depend on whether or not
__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD is defined.  It's a bit ugly, but that's what
we get for using bitfields in a user/kernel ABI.

Also, that commit didn't fix up some places in arch/powerpc/kernel/
perf_counter.c where hw_event.raw and hw_event.event_id were used.
This fixes them too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
include/linux/perf_counter.h

index 830ca9c..6413d9c 100644 (file)
@@ -602,12 +602,13 @@ hw_perf_counter_init(struct perf_counter *counter)
                return NULL;
        if ((s64)counter->hw_event.irq_period < 0)
                return NULL;
-       ev = counter->hw_event.event_id;
-       if (!counter->hw_event.raw) {
-               if (ev >= ppmu->n_generic ||
-                   ppmu->generic_events[ev] == 0)
+       if (!counter->hw_event.raw_type) {
+               ev = counter->hw_event.event_id;
+               if (ev >= ppmu->n_generic || ppmu->generic_events[ev] == 0)
                        return NULL;
                ev = ppmu->generic_events[ev];
+       } else {
+               ev = counter->hw_event.raw_event_id;
        }
        counter->hw.config_base = ev;
        counter->hw.idx = 0;
index a4b76c0..98f5990 100644 (file)
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/ioctl.h>
+#include <asm/byteorder.h>
 
 /*
  * User-space ABI bits:
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ enum perf_counter_record_type {
  */
 struct perf_counter_hw_event {
        union {
+#ifndef __BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD
                struct {
                        __u64                   event_id        : 56,
                                                type            :  8;
@@ -94,6 +96,16 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event {
                        __u64                   raw_event_id    : 63,
                                                raw_type        :  1;
                };
+#else
+               struct {
+                       __u64                   type            :  8,
+                                               event_id        : 56;
+               };
+               struct {
+                       __u64                   raw_type        :  1,
+                                               raw_event_id    : 63;
+               };
+#endif /* __BIT_ENDIAN_BITFIELD */
                __u64           event_config;
        };