8-letter strings representing ARC perf events are stores in two
32-bit registers as ASCII characters like that: "IJMP", "IALL", "IJMPTAK" etc.
And the same order of bytes in the word is used regardless CPU endianness.
Which means in case of big-endian CPU core we need to swap bytes to get
the same order as if it was on little-endian CPU.
Otherwise we're seeing the following error message on boot:
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ARC perf : 8 counters (32 bits), 40 conditions, [overflow IRQ support]
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arc_pct/events/pmji'
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3
Stack Trace:
arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc
dump_stack+0x64/0x80
sysfs_warn_dup+0x46/0x58
sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0xb2/0x168
create_files+0x70/0x2a0
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/events/core.c:12144 perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0
Failed to register pmu: arc_pct, reason -17
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.18 #3
Stack Trace:
arc_unwind_core+0xd4/0xfc
dump_stack+0x64/0x80
__warn+0x9c/0xd4
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x22/0x2c
perf_event_sysfs_init+0x70/0xa0
---[ end trace a75fb9a9837bd1ec ]---
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What happens here we're trying to register more than one raw perf event
with the same name "PMJI". Why? Because ARC perf events are 4 to 8 letters
and encoded into two 32-bit words. In this particular case we deal with 2
events:
* "IJMP____" which counts all jump & branch instructions
* "IJMPC___" which counts only conditional jumps & branches
Those strings are split in two 32-bit words this way "IJMP" + "____" &
"IJMP" + "C___" correspondingly. Now if we read them swapped due to CPU core
being big-endian then we read "PMJI" + "____" & "PMJI" + "___C".
And since we interpret read array of ASCII letters as a null-terminated string
on big-endian CPU we end up with 2 events of the same name "PMJI".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
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