perf: Ignore non-sampling overflows
Some arch implementations call perf_event_overflow() by 'accident',
ignore this.
Reported-by: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 98c5549..af1e63f 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4240,6 +4240,13 @@
struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
int ret = 0;
+ /*
+ * Non-sampling counters might still use the PMI to fold short
+ * hardware counters, ignore those.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!is_sampling_event(event)))
+ return 0;
+
if (!throttle) {
hwc->interrupts++;
} else {
