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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2012-06-20 11:11:38 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-05 20:59:07 +0200
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perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples
Several perf interrupt handlers (PEBS,IBS,BTS) re-write regs->ip but do not update the segment registers. So use an regs->ip based test instead of an regs->cs/regs->flags based test. Reported-and-tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xxrt0a1zronm1sm36obwc2vy@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index c4706cf9c01..6ef9d41b87f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
else
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL;
} else {
- if (user_mode(regs))
+ if (!kernel_ip(regs->ip))
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
else
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL;