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perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples

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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 <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xxrt0a1zronm1sm36obwc2vy@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2012-06-20 11:11:38 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
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@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
else else
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL; misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL;
} else { } else {
if (user_mode(regs)) if (!kernel_ip(regs->ip))
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER; misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
else else
misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL; misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL;