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libpmc: Handle PMCALLOCATE log with PMC code on PMU event system

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libpmc: Handle PMCALLOCATE log with PMC code on PMU event system

On an arm64 system that reports as a Cortex A72 r0p3, running

pmcstat -P CPU_CYCLES command

works, but

pmcstat -P cpu-cycles command

does not. This is because the former uses the PMU event from the JSON
source, resulting in pl_event in the log event being a small index
(here, 5) into the generated events table, whilst the latter does not
match any of the JSON events and falls back on PMC's own tables, mapping
it to the PMC event 0x14111, i.e. PMC_EV_ARMV8_EVENT_11H. Then, when
libpmc gets the PMCALLOCATE event, it tries to use the event as an index
into the JSON-derived table, but doing so only makes sense for the
former, whilst for the latter it will go way out of bounds and either
read junk (which may trigger the != NULL assertion) or segfault. As far
as I can tell we don't have anything lying around to tell us which of
the two cases we're in, but we can exploit the fact that the first
0x1000 PMC event codes are reserved, and that none of our PMU events
tables reach that number of entries yet.

PR: 268857
Reviewed by: mhorne
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39592

(cherry picked from commit 21f7397a61f7bff61a1221cc6340cd980a922540)

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Provenance
jrtc27Authored on Jun 7 2023, 2:21 PM
Reviewer
mhorne
Differential Revision
D39592: libpmc: Handle PMCALLOCATE log with PMC code on PMU event system
Parents
rG18912b83861f: riscv: Add pass(4) to GENERIC kernel
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