On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 06:29:55PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Freq events may not always be affine to a particular CPU. As such,
> account_event_cpu() may crash if we account per cpu a freq event
> that has event->cpu == -1.
> 
> To solve this, lets account freq events globally. In practice
> this doesn't change much the picture because perf tools create
> per-task perf events with one event per CPU by default. Profiling a
> single CPU is usually a corner case so there is no much point in
> optimizing things that way.
> 
> Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>

no more OOPSes ;-)

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]
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