From: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:21:44 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Limit event refresh to sampling event
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e939d1da9b5628642314c1e68b4319e61263c94;p=linux-beck.git

perf: Limit event refresh to sampling event

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 880698488c91..027c4d33b4d3 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static int perf_event_refresh(struct perf_event *event, int refresh)
 	/*
 	 * not supported on inherited events
 	 */
-	if (event->attr.inherit)
+	if (event->attr.inherit || !is_sampling_event(event))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	atomic_add(refresh, &event->event_limit);