[GIT PULL] perf/urgent for v5.16-rc1

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Nov 14 2021 - 05:41:25 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull a couple of perf/urgent fixes before v5.16-rc1 releases.

Thx.

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The following changes since commit debe436e77c72fcee804fb867f275e6d31aa999c:

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 (2021-11-10 17:05:37 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/perf_urgent_for_v5.16_rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 4716023a8f6a0f4a28047f14dd7ebdc319606b84:

perf/core: Avoid put_page() when GUP fails (2021-11-11 13:09:34 +0100)

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- Prevent unintentional page sharing by checking whether a page
reference to a PMU samples page has been acquired properly before that

- Make sure the LBR_SELECT MSR is saved/restored too

- Reset the LBR_SELECT MSR when resetting the LBR PMU to clear any
residual data left

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Greg Thelen (1):
perf/core: Avoid put_page() when GUP fails

Like Xu (1):
perf/x86/vlbr: Add c->flags to vlbr event constraints

Wanpeng Li (1):
perf/x86/lbr: Reset LBR_SELECT during vlbr reset

arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 4 +++-
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 2 ++
kernel/events/core.c | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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