linux/kernel/events
Stephane Eranian 1a51c5da5a perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug
The perf_proc_update_handler() handles /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
syctl variable.  When the PMU IRQ handler timing monitoring is disabled, i.e,
when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent is equal to 0 or 100,
then no modification to sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate is allowed to prevent
possible hang from wrong values.

The problem is that the test to prevent modification is made after the
sysctl variable is modified in perf_proc_update_handler().

You get an error:

  $ echo 10001 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  echo: write error: invalid argument

But the value is still modified causing all sorts of inconsistencies:

  $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  10001

This patch fixes the problem by moving the parsing of the value after
the test.

Committer testing:

  # echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
  # echo 10001 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  10001
  #

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547169436-6266-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-01-18 11:10:38 -03:00
..
callchain.c treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
core.c perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug 2019-01-18 11:10:38 -03:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Fix typos in comments 2018-12-03 11:22:32 +01:00
internal.h perf: Make perf_callchain function static 2018-01-08 12:33:01 -03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records 2018-09-18 17:21:13 -03:00
uprobes.c mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v2 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00