From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stable: please queue commit 0231bb5 ("perf: Fix event group context move")
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:21:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805082118.GD26746@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FF5FC9.8080302@huawei.com>
* Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> wrote:
> Plese consider adding commit 0231bb5336758426b44ccd798ccd3c5419c95d58
> to stable tree. It fixes a real bug, which was explained here:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user/1144
>
> and I've managed to reproduce the bug in 3.4 kernel with the test
> program attached in the above email, and I've confirmed the bug fix.
>
> The effect of the bug is, if we open a group of mixed events(sw/hw)
> and the "disabled" flag is not set and sw events come first, then
> some of the perf events won't be started after the call to perf_event_open().
>
> The bug fix should be applicable to kernels >= 3.0 && <= 3.7.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-05 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-05 8:18 stable: please queue commit 0231bb5 ("perf: Fix event group context move") Li Zefan
2013-08-05 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-08-31 20:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-08-05 10:57 ` Luis Henriques
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