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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.
Committer testing:
# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
# echo 10001 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
10001
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Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547169436-6266-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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