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| author | Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> | 2017-01-03 15:24:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2017-01-14 11:06:50 +0100 |
| 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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103142454.GA26251@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -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) if (event->attr.precise_ip > precise) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */ + if (!is_sampling_event(event)) + return -EINVAL; } /* * check that PEBS LBR correction does not conflict with |