[GIT PULL] ARM perf fixes for 3.2
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Nov 22 13:16:39 EST 2011
Russell,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:45:00PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Please pull these perf fixes for 3.2. Without them, modules trying to use
> the PMU will not compile (I accidently dropped an EXPORT_SYMBOL) and, more
> seriously, perf can be made to dereference NULL if the user tries to
> schedule an event group.
>
> Thanks to Tixy and Pawel for reporting the issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
I've added an additional fix to this branch that was reported through
Linaro. If you've already pulled, I can pop it in the patch system. If not,
then here's the updated pull request:
The following changes since commit cfcfc9eca2bcbd26a8e206baeb005b055dbf8e37:
Linux 3.2-rc2 (2011-11-15 15:02:59 -0200)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git for-rmk
Will Deacon (4):
ARM: PMU: re-export release_pmu symbol to modules
ARM: PMU: remove pmu_init declaration
ARM: perf: initialise used_mask for fake PMU during validation
ARM: perf: check that we have a platform device when reserving PMU
arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h | 10 ----------
arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 11 ++++++++++-
arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Thanks,
Will
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