MIPS, Perf-events: Fix event check in validate_event()

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

    The validate_event function in the ARM perf events backend has the
    following problems:

    1.) Events that are disabled count towards the cost.
    2.) Events associated with other PMUs [for example, software events or
        breakpoints] do not count towards the cost, but do fail validation,
        causing the group to fail.

    This patch changes validate_event so that it ignores events in the
    PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF state or that are scheduled for other PMUs.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
To: fweisbec@gmail.com
To: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: wuzhangjin@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com
Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com
Cc: ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2013/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c
index 1ee44a3f9718..3d55761146e5 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;
 }