linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make sure only uncore events are collected

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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:51:16 -0800
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@...el.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make sure only uncore events
 are collected

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:23:50PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> The uncore_collect_events functions assumes that event group
> might contain only uncore events which is wrong, because it
> might contain any type of events.
> 
> This bug leads to uncore framework touching 'not' uncore events,
> which could end up all sorts of bugs.

Thanks for tracking that down. Looks good to me.

-Andi
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