perf: Don't use -ENOSPC for out of PMU resources

People (Linus) objected to using -ENOSPC to signal not having enough
resources on the PMU to satisfy the request. Use -EINVAL.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xv8geaz2zpbjhlx0svmpp28n@git.kernel.org
[ merged to newer kernel, fixed up MIPS impact ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
index 24e2347be6b1..ff17b17b668e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -347,15 +347,15 @@ validate_group(struct perf_event *event)
         memset(&fake_pmu, 0, sizeof(fake_pmu));
 
         if (!validate_event(&fake_pmu, leader))
-                return -ENOSPC;
+                return -EINVAL;
 
         list_for_each_entry(sibling, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry) {
                 if (!validate_event(&fake_pmu, sibling))
-                        return -ENOSPC;
+                        return -EINVAL;
         }
 
         if (!validate_event(&fake_pmu, event))
-                return -ENOSPC;
+                return -EINVAL;
 
         return 0;
 }