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author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> | 2017-01-03 09:24:54 -0500 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-01-14 05:06:50 -0500 |
commit | 18e7a45af91acdde99d3aa1372cc40e1f8142f7b (patch) | |
tree | 92cd4d70fa72de908bd1376041cd84ab1829b5f1 | |
parent | 475113d937adfd150eb82b5e2c5507125a68e7af (diff) |
perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with precise_ip
As Peter suggested [1] rejecting non sampling PEBS events,
because they dont make any sense and could cause bugs
in the NMI handler [2].
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103094059.GC3093@worktop
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482931866-6018-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103142454.GA26251@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/events/core.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c index 019c5887b698..1635c0c8df23 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c | |||
@@ -505,6 +505,10 @@ int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event) | |||
505 | 505 | ||
506 | if (event->attr.precise_ip > precise) | 506 | if (event->attr.precise_ip > precise) |
507 | return -EOPNOTSUPP; | 507 | return -EOPNOTSUPP; |
508 | |||
509 | /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */ | ||
510 | if (!is_sampling_event(event)) | ||
511 | return -EINVAL; | ||
508 | } | 512 | } |
509 | /* | 513 | /* |
510 | * check that PEBS LBR correction does not conflict with | 514 | * check that PEBS LBR correction does not conflict with |