This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf intel-pt: Move decoder error setting into one condition to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-intel-pt-move-decoder-error-setting-into-one-condition.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 22c06892332d8916115525145b78e606e9cc6492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 11:17:02 +0300 Subject: perf intel-pt: Move decoder error setting into one condition From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> commit 22c06892332d8916115525145b78e606e9cc6492 upstream. Move decoder error setting into one condition. Cc'ed to stable because later fixes depend on it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495786658-18063-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -2128,15 +2128,18 @@ const struct intel_pt_state *intel_pt_de } } while (err == -ENOLINK); - decoder->state.err = err ? intel_pt_ext_err(err) : 0; + if (err) { + decoder->state.err = intel_pt_ext_err(err); + decoder->state.from_ip = decoder->ip; + } else { + decoder->state.err = 0; + } + decoder->state.timestamp = decoder->timestamp; decoder->state.est_timestamp = intel_pt_est_timestamp(decoder); decoder->state.cr3 = decoder->cr3; decoder->state.tot_insn_cnt = decoder->tot_insn_cnt; - if (err) - decoder->state.from_ip = decoder->ip; - return &decoder->state; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-ensure-ip-is-zero-when-state-is-intel_pt_state_no_ip.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-ensure-never-to-set-last_ip-when-packet-count-is-zero.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-use-fup-always-when-scanning-for-an-ip.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-fix-last_ip-usage.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-move-decoder-error-setting-into-one-condition.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-clear-fup-flag-on-error.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-improve-sample-timestamp.patch queue-4.9/perf-intel-pt-fix-missing-stack-clear.patch