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Commit 543ac280 authored by Kan Liang's avatar Kan Liang Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/x86/intel/uncore: Handle invalid event coding for free-running counter



Counting with invalid event coding for free-running counter may cause
OOPs, e.g. uncore_iio_free_running_0/event=1/.

Current code only validate the event with free-running event format,
event=0xff,umask=0xXY. Non-free-running event format never be checked
for the PMU with free-running counters.

Add generic hw_config() to check and reject the invalid event coding
for free-running PMU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Fixes: 0f519f03

 ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support IIO free-running counters on SKX")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556672028-119221-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent faaeff98
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