perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
authorKnut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:29:37 +0000 (14:29 +0200)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:24:22 +0000 (10:24 +0100)
commit2b183ff24e726b97e2eeef5a54f88d4a8ac4f7d8
treebae5e7e05392cd58c4e14ecd42cbdaa12d962828
parent454d0fc5cdf56444ef17e7f56d6c047734c86a0e
perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

commit 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 upstream.

/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.

Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.

This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/sysctl.c