Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753578Ab0KZDEJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:04:09 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:62286 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752525Ab0KZDEH (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:04:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:in-reply-to:references; b=IPkDy+cKxkKZfcdbJs66tf6E7W/alEr9CIK1YMW9T3KAMqvs7iPmsxDc4k8y0Rj9CI A87o135b+QmZTZ8f4IobaOpCySDp0BW6YRaZoH/UinE7T4JaqktyTt2gWlfIFNDCp4uy 1ixsSsxH3dO/6DIm5Kluz6A7zk74N9sTTm430= From: Deng-Cheng Zhu To: ralf@linux-mips.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, fweisbec@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wuzhangjin@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, acme@redhat.com, dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] MIPS/Perf-events: Fix event check in validate_event() Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:05:05 +0800 Message-Id: <1290740707-32586-4-git-send-email-dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 In-Reply-To: <1290740707-32586-1-git-send-email-dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> References: <1290740707-32586-1-git-send-email-dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 36 Ignore events that are in off/error state or belong to a different PMU. This patch originates from the following commit for ARM by Will Deacon: 65b4711ff513767341aa1915c822de6ec0de65cb ARM: 6352/1: perf: fix event validation Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu --- arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c index 1ee44a3..3d55761 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -486,8 +486,9 @@ static int validate_event(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, { struct hw_perf_event fake_hwc = event->hw; - if (event->pmu && event->pmu != &pmu) - return 0; + /* Allow mixed event group. So return 1 to pass validation. */ + if (event->pmu != &pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) + return 1; return mipspmu->alloc_counter(cpuc, &fake_hwc) >= 0; } -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/