perf: Don't use -ENOSPC for out of PMU resources
People (Linus) objected to using -ENOSPC to signal not having enough
resources on the PMU to satisfy the request. Use -EINVAL.
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xv8geaz2zpbjhlx0svmpp28n@git.kernel.org
[ merged to newer kernel, fixed up MIPS impact ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 6408910..ff0e8d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
x86_pmu.put_event_constraints(cpuc, cpuc->event_list[i]);
}
}
- return num ? -ENOSPC : 0;
+ return num ? -EINVAL : 0;
}
/*
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
if (is_x86_event(leader)) {
if (n >= max_count)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -EINVAL;
cpuc->event_list[n] = leader;
n++;
}
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
continue;
if (n >= max_count)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -EINVAL;
cpuc->event_list[n] = event;
n++;
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@
c = x86_pmu.get_event_constraints(fake_cpuc, event);
if (!c || !c->weight)
- ret = -ENOSPC;
+ ret = -EINVAL;
if (x86_pmu.put_event_constraints)
x86_pmu.put_event_constraints(fake_cpuc, event);
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@
{
struct perf_event *leader = event->group_leader;
struct cpu_hw_events *fake_cpuc;
- int ret = -ENOSPC, n;
+ int ret = -EINVAL, n;
fake_cpuc = allocate_fake_cpuc();
if (IS_ERR(fake_cpuc))