From ce5c1fe9a9e059b5c58f0a7e2a3e687d0efac815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:11:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples Several perf interrupt handlers (PEBS,IBS,BTS) re-write regs->ip but do not update the segment registers. So use an regs->ip based test instead of an regs->cs/regs->flags based test. Reported-and-tested-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xxrt0a1zronm1sm36obwc2vy@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c index c4706cf..6ef9d41 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c @@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs) else misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL; } else { - if (user_mode(regs)) + if (!kernel_ip(regs->ip)) misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER; else misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL; -- 2.7.4