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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>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:50:59 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
commit922e18d67bc0a534f1aef5c7643d8f682bb3eec6
tree719ee5e74ec2b27f0b72b292c4aa29cd7b70328e
parentfca3b89abc9206ecfe5d036b170e224957669eb1
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