hv_24x7 performance monitoring unit creates list of supported events from the event catalog obtained via HCALL. hv_24x7 catalog could also contain invalid or dummy events (with names like FREE_ or CPM_FREE_ so on). These events does not have any hardware counters backing them. So patch adds a check to string compare the event names to filter out them.
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kj...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c index 6e7e820508df..c3252d8a7818 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c @@ -894,6 +894,11 @@ static int create_events_from_catalog(struct attribute ***events_, name = event_name(event, &nl); + if (strstr(name, "FREE_")) { + pr_info("invalid event %zu (%.*s)\n", event_idx, nl, name); + junk_events++; + continue; + } if (event->event_group_record_len == 0) { pr_devel("invalid event %zu (%.*s): group_record_len == 0, skipping\n", event_idx, nl, name); @@ -955,6 +960,9 @@ static int create_events_from_catalog(struct attribute ***events_, continue; name = event_name(event, &nl); + if (strstr(name, "FREE_")) + continue; + nonce = event_uniq_add(&ev_uniq, name, nl, event->domain); ct = event_data_to_attrs(event_idx, events + event_attr_ct, event, nonce); -- 2.26.2