APPLIED: [SRU][F][PATCH 0/1] s390/cpum_cf: Add new extended counters for IBM z15 (LP: 1881096)

[Kelsey Skunberg]

Applied to Focal/master-next. Thank you! 

-Kelsey

On 2020-06-24 22:11:04 , frank.heimes at canonical.com wrote:
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1881096
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> * With perf from Ubuntu 20.04 on IBM z15 hardware, some counters reported with lscpumf are not usable with 'perf stat -e'.
> 
> * 'lscpumf -c' provides a list of available counters, but the following are not usable: DFLT_ACCESS, DFLT_CYCLES, DFLT_CC, DFLT_CCERROR
> 
> * 'perf list' is also not offering these counters.
> 
> * On the kernel side this is fixed with the following upstream accepted commit:
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> * d68d5d51dc898895b4e15bea52e5668ca9e76180 d68d5d51dc898895b "s390/cpum_cf: Add new extended counters for IBM z15"
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> * Requires the fix/patch of the perf tool, as mentioned in the bug, too.
> 
> * An IBM z15 (or LinuxONE III) system with Ubuntu 20.04 installed in LPAR is needed where the counters are enabled in the activation profile.
> 
> * Use 'perf list' to determine if the counters DFLT_ACCESS, DFLT_CYCLES, DFLT_CC, DFLT_CCERROR are listed
> 
> * Use 'perf stat -e' to enable amd make use of these counters.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> * The regression can be considered as low, since:
> 
> * it's architecture specific (s390x)
> 
> * limited to IBM z15 hardware
> 
> * and only additional (s390x) hardware counters are defined and added.
> 
> [Other]
> 
> * This requires a patch to be included into the perf itself, too - please see bug description for more details.
> 
> * Since this patch is upstream in kernel 5.7 it will automatically land in groovy.
> 
> Thomas Richter (1):
>   From: Thomas Richter <tmricht at linux.ibm.com>
> 
>  arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf_events.c | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 122 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
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> 2.25.1
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