perf/core: Inherit event_caps
It was reported that some perf event setup can make fork failed on ARM64. It was the case of a group of mixed hw and sw events and it failed in perf_event_init_task() due to armpmu_event_init(). The ARM PMU code checks if all the events in a group belong to the same PMU except for software events. But it didn't set the event_caps of inherited events and no longer identify them as software events. Therefore the test failed in a child process. A simple reproducer is: $ perf stat -e '{cycles,cs,instructions}' perf bench sched messaging # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark: perf: fork(): Invalid argument The perf stat was fine but the perf bench failed in fork(). Let's inherit the event caps from the parent. Signed-off-by:Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220328200112.457740-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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