perf: Ignore non-sampling overflows

Some arch implementations call perf_event_overflow() by 'accident',
ignore this.

Reported-by: Francis Moreau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: Peter Zijlstra

kernel/perf_event.c

@@ -4240,6 +4240,13 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, int nmi,
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Non-sampling counters might still use the PMI to fold short
+	 * hardware counters, ignore those.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!is_sampling_event(event)))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (!throttle) {
 		hwc->interrupts++;
 	} else {