[GIT PULL] perf fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 03:01:47 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest perf/urgent git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-2021-06-24

# HEAD: 7f049fbdd57f6ea71dc741d903c19c73b2f70950 perf/x86/intel/lbr: Zero the xstate buffer on allocation

An LBR buffer fix for code that probably only worked accidentally.

Thanks,

Ingo

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Thomas Gleixner (1):
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Zero the xstate buffer on allocation


arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index 4409d2cccfda..e8453de7a964 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ void reserve_lbr_buffers(void)
if (!kmem_cache || cpuc->lbr_xsave)
continue;

- cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL,
+ cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
cpu_to_node(cpu));
}
}