[tip:perf/urgent] perf/aux: Correct return code of rb_alloc_aux() if !has_aux(ev)

From: tip-bot for Hendrik Brueckner
Date: Wed Jun 21 2017 - 12:51:54 EST


Commit-ID: 8a1898db51a3390241cd5fae267dc8aaa9db0f8b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/8a1898db51a3390241cd5fae267dc8aaa9db0f8b
Author: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:26:39 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:58:30 +0200

perf/aux: Correct return code of rb_alloc_aux() if !has_aux(ev)

If the event for which an AUX area is about to be allocated, does
not support setting up an AUX area, rb_alloc_aux() return -ENOTSUPP.

This error condition is being returned unfiltered to the user space,
and, for example, the perf tools fails with:

failed to mmap with 524 (INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(524, 0x3fff497a1c8, 512)=22)

This error can be easily seen with "perf record -m 128,256 -e cpu-clock".

The 524 error code maps to -ENOTSUPP (in rb_alloc_aux()). The -ENOTSUPP
error code shall be only used within the kernel. So the correct error
code would then be -EOPNOTSUPP.

With this commit, the perf tool then reports:

failed to mmap with 95 (Operation not supported)

which is more clear.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pu Hou <bjhoupu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497954399-6355-1-git-send-email-brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 2831480..ee97196 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event,
int ret = -ENOMEM, max_order = 0;

if (!has_aux(event))
- return -ENOTSUPP;
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;

if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG) {
/*