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Commit 2f217d58 ("perf/x86/amd/uncore: Set the thread mask for
F17h L3 PMCs") inadvertently changed the uncore driver's behaviour
wrt perf tool invocations with or without a CPU list, specified with
-C / --cpu=.

Change the behaviour of the driver to assume the former all-cpu (-a)
case, which is the more commonly desired default.  This fixes
'-a -A' invocations without explicit cpu lists (-C) to not count
L3 events only on behalf of the first thread of the first core
in the L3 domain.

BEFORE:

Activity performed by the first thread of the last core (CPU#43) in
CPU#40's L3 domain is not reported by CPU#40:

sudo perf stat -a -A -e l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses taskset -c 43 perf bench mem memcpy -s 32mb -l 100 -f default
...
CPU36                 21,835      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
CPU40                 87,066      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
CPU44                 17,360      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
...

AFTER:

The L3 domain activity is now reported by CPU#40:

sudo perf stat -a -A -e l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses taskset -c 43 perf bench mem memcpy -s 32mb -l 100 -f default
...
CPU36                354,891      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
CPU40              1,780,870      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
CPU44                315,062      l3_request_g1.caching_l3_cache_accesses
...

Fixes: 2f217d58

 ("perf/x86/amd/uncore: Set the thread mask for F17h L3 PMCs")
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908214740.18097-2-kim.phillips@amd.com