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| author | Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> | 2010-09-17 11:28:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-09-17 12:48:47 +0200 |
| commit | d14b12d7adbf214f33eb59f800b5c3d5ed9268e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 005705157545c70db6b751f38ae28702714fb1ed /kernel | |
| parent | 74704ac6ea402d50c9543cb28247e6d9f521f7ae (diff) | |
| download | linux-d14b12d7adbf214f33eb59f800b5c3d5ed9268e8.tar.bz2 | |
perf_events: Fix broken event grouping
Events were not grouped anymore. The reason was that in
perf_event_open(), the field event->group_leader was
initialized before the function looked up the group_fd
to find the event leader. This patch fixes this by
reordering the code correctly.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.360420946@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_event.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 86f394e15d53..ce95617f5d2c 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -5550,17 +5550,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, if (event_fd < 0) return event_fd; - event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, group_leader, NULL, NULL); - if (IS_ERR(event)) { - err = PTR_ERR(event); - goto err_fd; - } - if (group_fd != -1) { group_leader = perf_fget_light(group_fd, &fput_needed); if (IS_ERR(group_leader)) { err = PTR_ERR(group_leader); - goto err_alloc; + goto err_fd; } group_file = group_leader->filp; if (flags & PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT) @@ -5569,6 +5563,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, group_leader = NULL; } + event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, group_leader, NULL, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(event)) { + err = PTR_ERR(event); + goto err_fd; + } + /* * Special case software events and allow them to be part of * any hardware group. @@ -5653,7 +5653,6 @@ err_context: put_ctx(ctx); err_group_fd: fput_light(group_file, fput_needed); -err_alloc: free_event(event); err_fd: put_unused_fd(event_fd); |