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| author | Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> | 2013-09-25 14:29:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-10-04 10:06:07 +0200 |
| commit | 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 (patch) | |
| tree | d89b59d4318eb5e37082f90880ac20b18f81a020 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 354cc40e3b0981c38ba2ce2964954480e6c03c37 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11.tar.gz lwn-723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11.zip | |
perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.
Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.
This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.
Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index b2f06f3c6a3f..2a9db916c3f5 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = perf_proc_update_handler, + .extra1 = &one, }, { .procname = "perf_cpu_time_max_percent", |