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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c
index 3ad363d..fe2763b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c
@@ -325,9 +325,10 @@ static int power8_get_constraint(u64 event, unsigned long *maskp, unsigned long
* HV writable, and there is no API for guest kernels to modify
* it. The solution is for the hypervisor to initialise the
* field to zeroes, and for us to only ever allow events that
- * have a cache selector of zero.
+ * have a cache selector of zero. The bank selector (bit 3) is
+ * irrelevant, as long as the rest of the value is 0.
*/
- if (cache)
+ if (cache & 0x7)
return -1;
} else if (event & EVENT_IS_L1) {
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