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Subject[tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples
Commit-ID:  ce5c1fe9a9e059b5c58f0a7e2a3e687d0efac815
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ce5c1fe9a9e059b5c58f0a7e2a3e687d0efac815
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:11:38 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:59:07 +0200

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>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 +-
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 c4706cf..6ef9d41 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;

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