From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:47:41 +0000 (+0100) Subject: arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f96d83b38937294584ede9473c2b2961528f287;p=karo-tx-linux.git arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec commit 8455e6ec70f33b0e8c3ffd47067e00481f09f454 upstream. This is a port of cb2d8b342aa0 ("ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec") to arm64, which fixes the event validation checking so that events in the OFF state are still considered when enable_on_exec is true. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c index 12e6ccb88691..2a1e9163d67a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -325,7 +325,10 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events, if (is_software_event(event)) return 1; - 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, &fake_event) >= 0;