From 18e7a45af91acdde99d3aa1372cc40e1f8142f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 15:24:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86: Reject non sampling events with precise_ip As Peter suggested [1] rejecting non sampling PEBS events, because they dont make any sense and could cause bugs in the NMI handler [2]. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103094059.GC3093@worktop [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482931866-6018-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Vince Weaver Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103142454.GA26251@krava Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/events/core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c index 019c5887b698..1635c0c8df23 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c @@ -505,6 +505,10 @@ int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.precise_ip > precise) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + /* There's no sense in having PEBS for non sampling events: */ + if (!is_sampling_event(event)) + return -EINVAL; } /* * check that PEBS LBR correction does not conflict with -- 2.11.0