[GIT PULL] perf fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 08:36:09 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: cf30d52e2d11523c42048ab89ed4215b5021526a perf/x86: Fix constraint table end marker bug

An x86/intel event constraint fix.

Thanks,

Ingo

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Maria Dimakopoulou (1):
perf/x86: Fix constraint table end marker bug


arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
index fd00bb2..c1a8618 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
@@ -262,11 +262,20 @@ struct cpu_hw_events {
__EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n, INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK, \
HWEIGHT(n), 0, PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_ST_HSW)

-#define EVENT_CONSTRAINT_END \
- EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0, 0, 0)
+/*
+ * We define the end marker as having a weight of -1
+ * to enable blacklisting of events using a counter bitmask
+ * of zero and thus a weight of zero.
+ * The end marker has a weight that cannot possibly be
+ * obtained from counting the bits in the bitmask.
+ */
+#define EVENT_CONSTRAINT_END { .weight = -1 }

+/*
+ * Check for end marker with weight == -1
+ */
#define for_each_event_constraint(e, c) \
- for ((e) = (c); (e)->weight; (e)++)
+ for ((e) = (c); (e)->weight != -1; (e)++)

/*
* Extra registers for specific events.
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