Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to fix up fixes before queueing up new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index de24fbce5277..52bedc5a5aaa 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2417,14 +2417,24 @@ static void ctx_sched_out(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
 			cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL;
 	}
 
-	is_active ^= ctx->is_active; /* changed bits */
-
+	/*
+	 * Always update time if it was set; not only when it changes.
+	 * Otherwise we can 'forget' to update time for any but the last
+	 * context we sched out. For example:
+	 *
+	 *   ctx_sched_out(.event_type = EVENT_FLEXIBLE)
+	 *   ctx_sched_out(.event_type = EVENT_PINNED)
+	 *
+	 * would only update time for the pinned events.
+	 */
 	if (is_active & EVENT_TIME) {
 		/* update (and stop) ctx time */
 		update_context_time(ctx);
 		update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(cpuctx);
 	}
 
+	is_active ^= ctx->is_active; /* changed bits */
+
 	if (!ctx->nr_active || !(is_active & EVENT_ALL))
 		return;
 
@@ -8532,6 +8542,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 					f_flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(event_file)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(event_file);
+		event_file = NULL;
 		goto err_context;
 	}