Event attribute validation is one of the biggest sources of EINVALs around
perf_event_open() syscall. This patch annotates error checks with extended
error reporting macros to provide the user with more details on what they
are doing wrong.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c 
b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
index 4216928344..9a09c89928 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 
 #undef DEBUG
 
+#define PERF_MODNAME   "perf/x86/intel/pt"
+
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
@@ -198,29 +200,29 @@ fail:
                        RTIT_CTL_CYC_PSB        | \
                        RTIT_CTL_MTC)
 
-static bool pt_event_valid(struct perf_event *event)
+static int pt_event_valid(struct perf_event *event)
 {
        u64 config = event->attr.config;
        u64 allowed, requested;
 
        if ((config & PT_CONFIG_MASK) != config)
-               return false;
+               return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: disallowed bits");
 
        if (config & RTIT_CTL_CYC_PSB) {
                if (!pt_cap_get(PT_CAP_psb_cyc))
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: PSB/CYC not 
supported");
 
                allowed = pt_cap_get(PT_CAP_psb_periods);
                requested = (config & RTIT_CTL_PSB_FREQ) >>
                        RTIT_CTL_PSB_FREQ_OFFSET;
                if (requested && (!(allowed & BIT(requested))))
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: unsupported PSB 
period");
 
                allowed = pt_cap_get(PT_CAP_cycle_thresholds);
                requested = (config & RTIT_CTL_CYC_THRESH) >>
                        RTIT_CTL_CYC_THRESH_OFFSET;
                if (requested && (!(allowed & BIT(requested))))
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: unsupported CYC 
threshold");
        }
 
        if (config & RTIT_CTL_MTC) {
@@ -232,20 +234,20 @@ static bool pt_event_valid(struct perf_event *event)
                 * CPUID is 0 will #GP, so better safe than sorry.
                 */
                if (!pt_cap_get(PT_CAP_mtc))
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: MTC not 
supported");
 
                allowed = pt_cap_get(PT_CAP_mtc_periods);
                if (!allowed)
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: MTC periods not 
supported");
 
                requested = (config & RTIT_CTL_MTC_RANGE) >>
                        RTIT_CTL_MTC_RANGE_OFFSET;
 
                if (!(allowed & BIT(requested)))
-                       return false;
+                       return perf_err(-EINVAL, "PT config: unsupported MTC 
period");
        }
 
-       return true;
+       return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1111,14 +1113,17 @@ static void pt_event_destroy(struct perf_event *event)
 
 static int pt_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 {
+       int err;
+
        if (event->attr.type != pt_pmu.pmu.type)
                return -ENOENT;
 
-       if (!pt_event_valid(event))
-               return -EINVAL;
+       err = pt_event_valid(event);
+       if (err)
+               return err;
 
        if (x86_add_exclusive(x86_lbr_exclusive_pt))
-               return -EBUSY;
+               return perf_err(-EBUSY, "PT conflicts with active events");
 
        event->destroy = pt_event_destroy;
 
-- 
2.5.0

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