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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2017-01-03 15:24:54 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-14 11:06:50 +0100
commit18e7a45af91acdde99d3aa1372cc40e1f8142f7b (patch)
tree92cd4d70fa72de908bd1376041cd84ab1829b5f1 /arch/x86/events
parent475113d937adfd150eb82b5e2c5507125a68e7af (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/events')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/events/core.c4
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