[PATCH] perf_event: Make software events work again

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Sat May 08 2010 - 06:58:27 EST


Commit 6bde9b6ce0127e2a56228a2071536d422be31336 ("perf: Add group
scheduling transactional APIs") added code to allow a group to be
scheduled in a single transaction. However, it introduced a bug in
handling events whose pmu does not implement transactions -- at the
end of scheduling in the events in the group, in the non-transactional
case the code now falls through to the group_error label, and proceeds
to unschedule all the events in the group and return failure.

This fixes it by returning 0 (success) in the non-transactional case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index bb06382..180151f 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -664,13 +664,13 @@ group_sched_in(struct perf_event *group_event,
}
}

- if (txn) {
- ret = pmu->commit_txn(pmu);
- if (!ret) {
- pmu->cancel_txn(pmu);
+ if (!txn)
+ return 0;

- return 0;
- }
+ ret = pmu->commit_txn(pmu);
+ if (!ret) {
+ pmu->cancel_txn(pmu);
+ return 0;
}

group_error:
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