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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-06-04 15:18:01 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-07-05 11:22:51 -0700
commit22fc69f9e98416df62729635f702b5459c4d73a5 (patch)
treec77ee7c487777715f083b61ad0966a482638935b /kernel
parentad569e0445c9073a9fd65c18b465dfef1d9bf3b4 (diff)
perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
commit f6ab91add6355e231e1c47897027b2a6ee4fa268 upstream. Frederic reported that frequency driven swevents didn't work properly and even caused a division-by-zero error. It turns out there are two bugs, the division-by-zero comes from a failure to deal with that in perf_calculate_period(). The other was more interesting and turned out to be a wrong comparison in perf_adjust_period(). The comparison was between an s64 and u64 and got implicitly converted to an unsigned comparison. The problem is that period_left is typically < 0, so it ended up being always true. Cure this by making the local period variables s64. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 44b4c626907..8fcebb4ac0f 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1456,6 +1456,9 @@ do { \
divisor = nsec * frequency;
}
+ if (!divisor)
+ return dividend;
+
return div64_u64(dividend, divisor);
}
@@ -1478,7 +1481,7 @@ static int perf_event_start(struct perf_event *event)
static void perf_adjust_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 nsec, u64 count)
{
struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
- u64 period, sample_period;
+ s64 period, sample_period;
s64 delta;
period = perf_calculate_period(event, nsec, count);