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-rw-r--r--kernel/events/callchain.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c29
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/internal.h2
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index bdb1533ada81..334d48b16c36 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
struct callchain_cpus_entries {
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
- struct perf_callchain_entry *cpu_entries[0];
+ struct perf_callchain_entry *cpu_entries[];
};
int sysctl_perf_event_max_stack __read_mostly = PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH;
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 468139611e06..2e330f330303 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
* @info: the function call argument
*
* Calls the function @func when the task is currently running. This might
- * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly
+ * be on the current CPU, which just calls the function directly. This will
+ * retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
+ * task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
*
- * returns: @func return value, or
- * -ESRCH - when the process isn't running
- * -EAGAIN - when the process moved away
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
*/
static int
task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -112,11 +112,16 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
};
int ret;
- do {
- ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function, &data, 1);
- if (!ret)
- ret = data.ret;
- } while (ret == -EAGAIN);
+ for (;;) {
+ ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
+ &data, 1);
+ ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+
+ if (ret != -EAGAIN)
+ break;
+
+ cond_resched();
+ }
return ret;
}
@@ -9402,7 +9407,7 @@ static int perf_kprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
if (event->attr.type != perf_kprobe.type)
return -ENOENT;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
/*
@@ -9462,7 +9467,7 @@ static int perf_uprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
if (event->attr.type != perf_uprobe.type)
return -ENOENT;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
/*
@@ -11509,7 +11514,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}
if (attr.namespaces) {
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
}
diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
index f16f66b6b655..fcbf5616a441 100644
--- a/kernel/events/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct perf_buffer {
void *aux_priv;
struct perf_event_mmap_page *user_page;
- void *data_pages[0];
+ void *data_pages[];
};
extern void rb_free(struct perf_buffer *rb);