Re: perf event group siblings not counting in mainline

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:54:15PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> If I try using perf with event groups on a mainline kernel, only the group
> leader counts:
> 
> 
> linaro@mashed-potato:~$ perf stat --no-scale -g -e task-clock -e cpu-clock -e cs -- ls
> hwb  linux
> 
>  Performance counter stats for 'ls':
> 
>          17.545541 task-clock                #    0.634 CPUs utilized
>           0.000000 cpu-clock
>                  0 cs                        #    0.000 M/sec
> 
>        0.027684984 seconds time elapsed
> 
> 
> This is fixed by b79387ef ("perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events")
> in -next (20111222) but I can't see this queued anywhere for 3.2 (I thought
> I might see it in -rc7).
> 
> Is this going in for the final cut, or will groups just be borked until 3.3?

Now that 3.2 is out with this regression, would it be possible to get this
(b79387ef ("perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events")) into -stable please?

Will