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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-08-20 11:47:41 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-08-20 12:12:25 +0100
commit8455e6ec70f33b0e8c3ffd47067e00481f09f454 (patch)
treef5c7ac893fef4e781e8143d8e1f361304ce821ad /arch/arm64/kernel
parentarm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders (diff)
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arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec
This is a port of cb2d8b342aa0 ("ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec") to arm64, which fixes the event validation checking so that events in the OFF state are still considered when enable_on_exec is true. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 12e6ccb88691..2a1e9163d67a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -325,7 +325,10 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events,
if (is_software_event(event))
return 1;
- if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
+ if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF && !event->attr.enable_on_exec)
return 1;
return armpmu->get_event_idx(hw_events, &fake_event) >= 0;