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perf: Fix inherited events vs. tracepoint filters
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 2 Nov 2015 09:50:51 +0000 (10:50 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:57:46 +0000 (11:57 -0800)
commit05c5582559ac40ab12a4624681d41f2771239c8e
tree37518dbb9c48b1ec28a04162102d665aa433ee84
parent590a2f0b8c5d10279bf8cb6d07ca426e6086b349
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>
kernel/events/core.c