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perf/core: Fix low freq setting via IOC_PERIOD
authorKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:19:12 +0000 (07:19 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 7 Mar 2025 17:25:38 +0000 (18:25 +0100)
commit322cb23e24c8e3cbe843499fe6fc6fbd9138362e
treed3545b8d37063aabfa960128b0bc5f5b772c1dab
parentbf6e873ad7326ca8edc2758f458aa2fe7e433077
perf/core: Fix low freq setting via IOC_PERIOD

commit 0d39844150546fa1415127c5fbae26db64070dd3 upstream.

A low attr::freq value cannot be set via IOC_PERIOD on some platforms.

The perf_event_check_period() introduced in:

  81ec3f3c4c4d ("perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback")

was intended to check the period, rather than the frequency.
A low frequency may be mistakenly rejected by limit_period().

Fix it.

Fixes: 81ec3f3c4c4d ("perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117151913.3043942-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250115154949.3147-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/events/core.c