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Paul Mackerras d5d2bc0dd0 perf_counter: make it possible for hw_perf_counter_init to return error codes 
Impact: better error reporting

At present, if hw_perf_counter_init encounters an error, all it can do
is return NULL, which causes sys_perf_counter_open to return an EINVAL
error to userspace.  This isn't very informative for userspace; it means
that userspace can't tell the difference between "sorry, oprofile is
already using the PMU" and "we don't support this CPU" and "this CPU
doesn't support the requested generic hardware event".

This commit uses the PTR_ERR/ERR_PTR/IS_ERR set of macros to let
hw_perf_counter_init return an error code on error rather than just NULL
if it wishes.  If it does so, that error code will be returned from
sys_perf_counter_open to userspace.  If it returns NULL, an EINVAL
error will be returned to userspace, as before.

This also adapts the powerpc hw_perf_counter_init to make use of this
to return ENXIO, EINVAL, EBUSY, or EOPNOTSUPP as appropriate.  It would
be good to add extra error numbers in future to allow userspace to
distinguish the various errors that are currently reported as EINVAL,
i.e. irq_period < 0, too many events in a group, conflict between
exclude_* settings in a group, and PMU resource conflict in a group.

[ v2: fix a bug pointed out by Corey Ashford where error returns from
      hw_perf_counter_init were not handled correctly in the case of
      raw hardware events.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.682428180@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:40 +02:00
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irq Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
power Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-26 16:05:42 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 04 2009-01-14 14:15:19 +01:00
async.c async: remove the temporary (2.6.29) "async is off by default" code 2009-03-28 13:05:30 -07:00
audit_tree.c audit: incorrect ref counting in audit tree tag_chunk 2009-04-05 13:48:26 -04:00
audit.c Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path 2009-04-05 13:49:04 -04:00
audit.h fixing audit rule ordering mess, part 1 2009-01-04 15:14:41 -05:00
auditfilter.c make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel auditfilter.c 2009-04-05 13:40:33 -04:00
auditsc.c Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path 2009-04-05 13:49:04 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 04 2009-01-14 14:15:19 +01:00
cgroup_debug.c debug cgroup: remove unneeded cgroup_lock 2009-04-02 19:04:54 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c freezer_cg: disable writing freezer.state of root cgroup 2008-11-12 17:17:16 -08:00
cgroup.c memcg: fix OOM killer under memcg 2009-04-02 19:04:55 -07:00
compat.c Allow times and time system calls to return small negative values 2009-01-06 15:59:13 -08:00
configs.c
cpu.c cpumask: use set_cpu_active in init/main.c 2009-03-30 22:05:12 +10:30
cpuset.c cpusets: prevent PF_THREAD_BOUND tasks from attaching to non-root cpusets 2009-04-02 19:04:57 -07:00
cred-internals.h CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials 2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
cred.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 2009-01-09 13:59:25 -08:00
delayacct.c schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats 2008-12-18 13:54:01 +01:00
dma-coherent.c dma-coherent: Restore dma_alloc_from_coherent() large alloc fall back policy. 2009-01-21 18:51:53 +09:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h 2009-03-31 23:00:27 -04:00
exit.c Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2 2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
extable.c Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
fork.c Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2 2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
freezer.c freezer_cg: use thaw_process() in unfreeze_cgroup() 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
futex_compat.c CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds 2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
futex.c futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb, fix 2009-03-13 10:32:07 +01:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: prevent negative expiry value after clock_was_set() 2009-01-30 22:35:34 +01:00
itimer.c timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers 2009-02-05 13:04:33 +01:00
kallsyms.c Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols 2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too 2008-12-25 09:31:28 +01:00
kexec.c kexec: vmcoreinfo_data[] can become static 2009-04-02 19:05:04 -07:00
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c module: create a request_module_nowait() 2009-03-31 13:05:35 +10:30
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix locking imbalance in kretprobes 2009-03-18 12:51:16 +01:00
ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c:fix dependence on CONFIG_NET 2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
kthread.c cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL 2009-03-30 22:05:11 +10:30
latencytop.c sched, latencytop: incorporate review feedback from Andrew Morton 2009-02-11 10:18:04 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: get_user_chars() redo 2009-02-14 23:28:22 +01:00
lockdep_proc.c lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging 2009-02-14 23:28:28 +01:00
lockdep_states.h lockdep: move state bit definitions around 2009-02-14 23:27:59 +01:00
lockdep.c Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2 2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
marker.c markers/tracpoints: fix non-modular build 2008-11-16 09:52:03 +01:00
module.c Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
mutex-debug.c mutex: implement adaptive spinning 2009-01-14 18:09:02 +01:00
mutex-debug.h mutex: implement adaptive spinning 2009-01-14 18:09:02 +01:00
mutex.c mutex: drop "inline" from mutex_lock() inside kernel/mutex.c 2009-04-06 09:30:27 +02:00
mutex.h mutex: implement adaptive spinning 2009-01-14 18:09:02 +01:00
notifier.c Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into core/debug 2008-11-26 08:22:50 +01:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: relax ns_can_attach checks to allow attaching to grandchild cgroups 2009-04-02 19:04:53 -07:00
nsproxy.c User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2) 2008-11-24 18:57:41 -05:00
panic.c panic: clean up kernel/panic.c 2009-03-13 11:25:53 +01:00
params.c param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs 2009-03-31 13:05:30 +10:30
perf_counter.c perf_counter: make it possible for hw_perf_counter_init to return error codes 2009-04-06 09:30:40 +02:00
pid_namespace.c signals: zap_pid_ns_process() should use force_sig() 2009-04-02 19:04:58 -07:00
pid.c pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe 2009-04-02 19:05:02 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c posix timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork() 2009-03-23 20:43:35 +01:00
posix-timers.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 05 2009-01-14 14:15:20 +01:00
printk.c Merge branch 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 10:23:25 -07:00
profile.c profiling: fix broken profiling regression 2009-02-10 00:50:37 +01:00
ptrace.c Merge branch 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-03 17:35:06 -07:00
rcuclassic.c rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot 2009-02-26 04:08:14 +01:00
rcupdate.c rcu: rcu_barrier VS cpu_hotplug: Ensure callbacks in dead cpu are migrated to online cpu 2009-03-31 00:09:37 +02:00
rcupreempt_trace.c "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation 2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
rcupreempt.c rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot 2009-02-26 04:08:14 +01:00
rcutorture.c cpumask: convert rcutorture.c 2009-03-30 22:05:16 +10:30
rcutree_trace.c "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation 2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
rcutree.c rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot 2009-02-26 04:08:14 +01:00
relay.c Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
res_counter.c memcg: memory cgroup resource counters for hierarchy 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
resource.c resources: fix parameter name and kernel-doc 2009-01-15 16:39:38 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
sched_cpupri.c sched: fix section mismatch 2009-01-06 11:07:15 +01:00
sched_cpupri.h cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core 2009-03-30 22:05:17 +10:30
sched_debug.c sched: remove unused fields from struct rq 2009-03-24 23:16:51 +01:00
sched_fair.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/core 2009-02-15 21:15:16 +01:00
sched_features.h Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
sched_idletask.c sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency 2008-10-22 10:01:52 +02:00
sched_rt.c Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
sched_stats.h sched: remove unused fields from struct rq 2009-03-24 23:16:51 +01:00
sched.c perf_counter: generic context switch event 2009-04-06 09:30:15 +02:00
seccomp.c x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole 2009-03-02 15:41:30 -08:00
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary 2009-04-02 19:04:58 -07:00
slow-work.c Document the slow work thread pool 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
smp.c generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic 2009-03-13 10:47:34 +01:00
softirq.c Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
softlockup.c softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced 2009-01-14 11:48:07 +01:00
spinlock.c Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts 2009-04-02 19:05:11 -07:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias 2008-12-25 11:44:43 +01:00
stop_machine.c cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core 2009-03-30 22:05:17 +10:30
sys_ni.c Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/core 2009-01-21 16:37:27 +01:00
sys.c Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2 2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
sysctl_check.c net: add ARP notify option for devices 2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08:00
sysctl.c Make the slow work pool configurable 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
taskstats.c cpumask: convert rest of files in kernel/ 2009-01-01 10:12:28 +10:30
test_kprobes.c kprobes: add tests for register_kprobes 2009-01-06 15:59:20 -08:00
time.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01 2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup 2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
tracepoint.c tracepoints: dont update zero-sized tracepoint sections 2009-03-18 19:55:00 +01:00
tsacct.c Fix fixpoint divide exception in acct_update_integrals 2009-03-09 08:13:35 -07:00
uid16.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 19 2009-01-14 14:15:26 +01:00
up.c smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix #2 2009-01-12 16:04:37 +01:00
user_namespace.c Fix recursive lock in free_uid()/free_user_ns() 2009-02-27 16:26:21 -08:00
user.c Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-03-24 10:52:46 +11:00
utsname_sysctl.c proc_sysctl: use CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL around ipc and utsname proc_handlers 2009-04-02 19:05:01 -07:00
utsname.c
wait.c wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation 2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00