On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 01:03:20PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:17 PM Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> wrote: > > > > The perf_proc_update_handler() handles > > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate > > syctl variable. When the PMU IRQ handler timing monitoring is disabled, > > i.e, > > when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent is equal to 0 or 100, > > then no modification to sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate is allowed to prevent > > possible hang from wrong values. > > > > The problem is that the test to prevent modification is made after the > > sysctl variable is modified in perf_proc_update_handler(). > > > > You get an error: > > > > $ echo 10001 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate > > echo: write error: invalid argument > > > > But the value is still modified causing all sorts of inconsistencies: > > > > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate > > 10001 > > > > This patch fixes the problem by moving the parsing of the value after > > the test. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> > > Ping.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> -Andi