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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-06-05 19:31:01 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-05 20:42:53 +0200
commit2f335a02b3c816e77e7df1d15b12e3bbb8f4c8f0 (patch)
tree2e4bd6040936f5ac8964f8034918c653d36dd53f /Documentation/perf_counter
parent1dba15e74aba5a90c1f2557f37e5d09f8a2df643 (diff)
perf top: Fix zero or negative refresh delay
If perf top is executed with a zero value for the refresh rate, we get a division by zero exception while computing samples_per_sec. Also a zero refresh rate is not possible, neither do we want to accept negative values. [ Impact: fix division by zero in perf top ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1244223061-5399-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/perf_counter')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
index ff7e13c4647..b2f480b5a13 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-top.c
@@ -693,6 +693,9 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
event_id[0] = 0;
}
+ if (delay_secs < 1)
+ delay_secs = 1;
+
for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++) {
if (event_count[counter])
continue;