Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make perf_event_open() propagate errors for use in bpf_perf_event_open()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:09:38PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> commit 1b3b3dee572d0b77a316ab6715091201be6832de
> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 11 13:20:20 2019 -0300
> 
>     perf: Make perf_event_output() propagate the output() return
>     
>     For the original mode of operation it isn't needed, since we report back
>     errors via PERF_RECORD_LOST records in the ring buffer, but for use in
>     bpf_perf_event_output() it is convenient to return the errors, basically
>     -ENOSPC.
>     
>     Currently bpf_perf_event_output() returns an error indication, the last
>     thing it does, which is to push it to the ring buffer is that can fail
>     and if so, this failure won't be reported back to its users, fix it.
>     
>     Reported-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
>     Tested-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
>     Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
>     Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
>     Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
>     Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
>     Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
>     Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>     Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111155538.GX22483@kernel.org
>     Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

/me hates on git-format :-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>