* Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:58:44AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:36:44PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Intel PT decoding walks the object code to reconstruct the trace. A
> > > jump label change during tracing causes decoding errors.
> > >
> > > The "Enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor" patch caused
> > > there to be always a jump label change.
> > >
> > > It was found that using a per-cpu context instead of a per-thread
> > > context for the probe of the close-on-exec feature, made the problem go
> > > away.
> >
> > per-cpu events are privileged, wouldn't this change make CLOEXEC always
> > undetected for normal users?
> >
> > Also, the $subject doesn't related to CLOEXEC at all.
>
> right, it would.. Ingo, still any chance to skip this one?
>
> [jolsa@dhcp-26-214 perf]$ ./perf record sleep 1
> perf_event_open(..., PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) failed with unexpected error 13
> (Permission denied)
> perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error 13 (Permission denied)
>
> jirka
No, sorry - mind any of you please send a pull request with a fix or a
revert?
Thanks,
Ingo
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