On specific configurations with hwsampler opcontrol --start returns an
error on "echo 1 >/dev/oprofile/enable". Turns out that the hw sampling
interval is not checked against the hardware limits.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
if (oprofile_max_interval == 0)
return -ENODEV;
+ /* The initial value should be sane */
+ if (oprofile_hw_interval < oprofile_min_interval)
+ oprofile_hw_interval = oprofile_min_interval;
+ if (oprofile_hw_interval > oprofile_max_interval)
+ oprofile_hw_interval = oprofile_max_interval;
+
if (oprofile_timer_init(ops))
return -ENODEV;