From: Michael Ellerman Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:00:32 +0000 (+1100) Subject: powerpc/perf: Avoid mutating event in power8_get_constraint() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7cbba630288112e231558d055123cfc3e19feeb6;p=linux-beck.git powerpc/perf: Avoid mutating event in power8_get_constraint() We only need to mask the EBB bit out of the event for the check of the special PMC 5 & 6 events. So use a local to do it just for that code, rather than changing the event value for the life of the function. While we're there move the set of mask and value after all the checks. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c index 1d7c4428a55e..67aab104b9fe 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c @@ -270,18 +270,20 @@ static int power8_get_constraint(u64 event, unsigned long *maskp, unsigned long cache = (event >> EVENT_CACHE_SEL_SHIFT) & EVENT_CACHE_SEL_MASK; ebb = (event >> EVENT_EBB_SHIFT) & EVENT_EBB_MASK; - /* Clear the EBB bit in the event, so event checks work below */ - event &= ~(EVENT_EBB_MASK << EVENT_EBB_SHIFT); - if (pmc) { + u64 base_event; + if (pmc > 6) return -1; - mask |= CNST_PMC_MASK(pmc); - value |= CNST_PMC_VAL(pmc); + /* Ignore Linux defined bits when checking event below */ + base_event = event & ~(EVENT_EBB_MASK << EVENT_EBB_SHIFT); - if (pmc >= 5 && event != 0x500fa && event != 0x600f4) + if (pmc >= 5 && base_event != 0x500fa && base_event != 0x600f4) return -1; + + mask |= CNST_PMC_MASK(pmc); + value |= CNST_PMC_VAL(pmc); } if (pmc <= 4) {