From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Will Deacon , Russell King Subject: [ 24/42] ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:52:22 -0700 Message-Id: <20130423215207.972974124@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130423215205.523980967@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130423215205.523980967@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Will Deacon commit cb2d8b342aa084d1f3ac29966245dec9163677fb upstream. Events may be created with attr->disabled == 1 and attr->enable_on_exec == 1, which confuses the group validation code because events with the PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF are not considered candidates for scheduling, which may lead to failure at group scheduling time. This patch fixes the validation check for ARM, so that events in the OFF state are still considered when enable_on_exec is true. Reported-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -261,7 +261,10 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_ struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu); struct pmu *leader_pmu = event->group_leader->pmu; - 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, event) >= 0;