perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period
Vince Weaver reports that, on all architectures apart from ARM, PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD doesn't actually update the period until the next event fires. This is counter-intuitive behaviour and is better dealt with in the core code. This patch ensures that the period is forcefully reset when dealing with such a request in the core code. A subsequent patch removes the equivalent hack from the ARM back-end. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385560479-11014-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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