The breakpoint PMU has the capability to exclude kernel contexts, let's advertise that we support the PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE capability so that perf doesn't prevent us from handling events with any exclusion flags set. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c index d6b5618..fefe3d5 100644 --- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -669,6 +669,8 @@ static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = { .start = hw_breakpoint_start, .stop = hw_breakpoint_stop, .read = hw_breakpoint_pmu_read, + + .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE, }; int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void) -- 2.7.4