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[BUG] likwid-perfctr returns "No event in given event string can be configured" on ARM Cortex A72 and Ubuntu aarch64

Created by: ibogosavljevic

Describe the bug likwid-perfctr returns "No event in given event string can be configured" on ARM Cortex A72 and Ubuntu aarch64.

The Ubuntu is a special build for raspberry PI. Here is the output of uname

$ uname -a 
Linux ubuntu 5.11.0-1009-raspi #10-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri May 14 14:49:24 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Here is the information about the chip:

$ lscpu
Architecture:                    aarch64
CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:                      Little Endian
CPU(s):                          4
On-line CPU(s) list:             0-3
Thread(s) per core:              1
Core(s) per socket:              4
Socket(s):                       1
Vendor ID:                       ARM
Model:                           3
Model name:                      Cortex-A72
Stepping:                        r0p3
CPU max MHz:                     1500.0000
CPU min MHz:                     600.0000
BogoMIPS:                        108.00
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:              Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:               Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:          Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Vulnerable
Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected
Flags:                           fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid

To Reproduce

  • LIKWID 5.2.0 compiled from source (in config.make, COMPILER = GCCARMv8). Installed with sudo
  • Operating system as stated

To Reproduce with a LIKWID command

$ likwid-perfctr -a
Group name	Description
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ICACHE	Instruction cache miss rate/ratio
BRANCH	Branch prediction miss rate/ratio
    L2	L2 cache bandwidth in MBytes/s
   MEM	Main memory bandwidth in MBytes/s
  DATA	Load to store ratio
$ likwid-perfctr -g MEM -C 0 -V 3 ls
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU name:	BCM2835
CPU type:	ARM Cortex A72
CPU clock:	0.00 GHz
CPU family:	8
CPU model:	0
CPU short:	arm8
CPU stepping:	3
CPU features:	FP ASIMD 
CPU arch:	armv8
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[likwid-pin] Main PID -> hwthread 0 - OK
Executing: ls
DEBUG - [perfmon_addEventSet:2167] Currently 1 groups of 2 active
DEBUG - [perfgroup_readGroup:871] Reading group MEM from /usr/local/share/likwid/perfgroups/arm8/MEM.txt
DEBUG - [perfmon_addEventSet:2286] Cannot access counter register PMC0
DEBUG - [perfmon_addEventSet:2286] Cannot access counter register PMC1
DEBUG - [perfmon_addEventSet:2286] Cannot access counter register PMC2
DEBUG - [perfmon_addEventSet:2286] Cannot access counter register PMC3
ERROR: No event in given event string can be configured.
       Either the events or counters do not exist for the
       current architecture. If event options are set, they might
       be invalid.