From 58763148758057ffc447bf990321d3ea86d199a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:15:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Remove WARN from perf_event_read() This effectively reverts commit: 71e7bc2bab77 ("perf/core: Check return value of the perf_event_read() IPI") ... and puts in a comment explaining why we ignore the return value. Reported-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 71e7bc2bab77 ("perf/core: Check return value of the perf_event_read() IPI") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 3cfabdf7b942..07ac8596a728 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3549,10 +3549,18 @@ static int perf_event_read(struct perf_event *event, bool group) .group = group, .ret = 0, }; - ret = smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1); - /* The event must have been read from an online CPU: */ - WARN_ON_ONCE(ret); - ret = ret ? : data.ret; + /* + * Purposely ignore the smp_call_function_single() return + * value. + * + * If event->oncpu isn't a valid CPU it means the event got + * scheduled out and that will have updated the event count. + * + * Therefore, either way, we'll have an up-to-date event count + * after this. + */ + (void)smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1); + ret = data.ret; } else if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE) { struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx; unsigned long flags; -- 2.20.1