On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:32:57PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 
> It's possible some of the counters in the group could be
> disabled when sampling member of the event group is reading
> the rest via PERF_SAMPLE_READ sample type processing. Disabled
> counters could then produce wrong numbers.
> 
> Fixing that by reading only enabled counters for PERF_SAMPLE_READ
> sample type processing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

I had to like re-read our previous thread on this; which I think says that the
Changelog isn't perfect. However:

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
> Cc: Corey Ashford <[email protected]>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 4081261..e2ea1b9 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -4018,7 +4018,8 @@ static void perf_output_read_group(struct 
> perf_output_handle *handle,
>       list_for_each_entry(sub, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry) {
>               n = 0;
>  
> -             if (sub != event)
> +             if ((sub != event) &&
> +                 (sub->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE))
>                       sub->pmu->read(sub);
>  
>               values[n++] = perf_event_count(sub);
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
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