Ignore events that are in off/error state or belong to a different PMU. This patch originates from the following commit for ARM by Will Deacon: 65b4711ff513767341aa1915c822de6ec0de65cb ARM: 6352/1: perf: fix event validation Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c index 1ee44a3..3d55761 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -486,8 +486,9 @@ static int validate_event(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, { struct hw_perf_event fake_hwc = event->hw; - if (event->pmu && event->pmu != &pmu) - return 0; + /* Allow mixed event group. So return 1 to pass validation. */ + if (event->pmu != &pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) + return 1; return mipspmu->alloc_counter(cpuc, &fake_hwc) >= 0; } -- 1.7.1