perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
/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>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b2f06f3..2a9db91 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = perf_proc_update_handler,
+ .extra1 = &one,
},
{
.procname = "perf_cpu_time_max_percent",