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Adrian Hunter committed 48536c9195a
perf tools: Fix probing for PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag Commit f6edb53c4993ffe92ce521fb449d1c146cea6ec2 converted the probe to a CPU wide event first (pid == -1). For kernels that do not support the PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag the probe fails with EINVAL. Since this errno is not handled pid is not reset to 0 and the subsequent use of pid = -1 as an argument brings in an additional failure path if perf_event_paranoid > 0: $ perf record -- sleep 1 perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error 13 (Permission denied) [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.007 MB /tmp/perf.data (11 samples) ] Also, ensure the fd of the confirmation check is closed and comment why pid = -1 is used. Needs to go to 3.18 stable tree as well. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Based-on-patch-by: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54EC610C.8000403@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>