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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-11-02 10:50:51 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-25 11:58:52 -0800
commit2288d5932ed2e76cfce2ab6328f9da6f5dd89c55 (patch)
tree8fb875e7885b835a3968cf7fa6807fd22f3084bc /kernel
parent5d5b6db240e5689761a92e294c0a18b1afff20d1 (diff)
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perf: Fix inherited events vs. tracepoint filters
commit b71b437eedaed985062492565d9d421d975ae845 upstream. Arnaldo reported that tracepoint filters seem to misbehave (ie. not apply) on inherited events. The fix is obvious; filters are only set on the actual (parent) event, use the normal pattern of using this parent event for filters. This is safe because each child event has a reference to it. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151102095051.GN17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 3bf20e36a8e7..169cc28642ba 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5945,6 +5945,10 @@ static int perf_tp_filter_match(struct perf_event *event,
{
void *record = data->raw->data;
+ /* only top level events have filters set */
+ if (event->parent)
+ event = event->parent;
+
if (likely(!event->filter) || filter_match_preds(event->filter, record))
return 1;
return 0;