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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix bug when recording SPE and non SPE events
To:     James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
        linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     nd@arm.com, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
References: <20191220110525.30131-1-james.clark@arm.com>
From:   Suzuki Kuruppassery Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
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Date:   Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:28:11 +0000
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On 20/12/2019 11:05, James Clark wrote:
> This patch fixes an issue when non Arm SPE events are specified after an
> Arm SPE event. In that case, perf will exit with an error code and not
> produce a record file. This is because a loop index is used to store the
> location of the relevant Arm SPE PMU, but if non SPE PMUs follow, that
> index will be overwritten. Fix this issue by saving the PMU into a
> variable instead of using the index, and also add an error message.
> 
> Before the fix:
>      ./perf record -e arm_spe/ts_enable=1/ -e branch-misses ls; echo $?
>      237
> 
> After the fix:
>      ./perf record -e arm_spe/ts_enable=1/ -e branch-misses ls; echo $?
>      ...
>      0
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>