perf/core: Remove WARN from perf_event_read()

This effectively reverts commit:

  71e7bc2 ("perf/core: Check return value of the perf_event_read() IPI")

... and puts in a comment explaining why we ignore the return value.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Fixes: 71e7bc2 ("perf/core: Check return value of the perf_event_read() IPI")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: Peter Zijlstra

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -3549,10 +3549,18 @@ static int perf_event_read(struct perf_event *event, bool group)
 			.group = group,
 			.ret = 0,
 		};
-		ret = smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1);
-		/* The event must have been read from an online CPU: */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
-		ret = ret ? : data.ret;
+		/*
+		 * Purposely ignore the smp_call_function_single() return
+		 * value.
+		 *
+		 * If event->oncpu isn't a valid CPU it means the event got
+		 * scheduled out and that will have updated the event count.
+		 *
+		 * Therefore, either way, we'll have an up-to-date event count
+		 * after this.
+		 */
+		(void)smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1);
+		ret = data.ret;
 	} else if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE) {
 		struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
 		unsigned long flags;