Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits)
  perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description
  perf script: Kill script_spec__delete
  perf top: Fix a memory leak
  perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
  perf session: Remove impossible condition check
  perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable
  perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
  perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags
  perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section
  perf report: Accept fifos as input file
  perf tools: Moving code in some files
  perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session
  perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features
  perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops
  perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
  perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.
  perf tools: Fix truncated annotation
  perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid
  perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
  perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c b/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c
index f8c752e408a..ed2c3ec0702 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c
@@ -246,37 +246,31 @@ static int __init oprofile_init(void)
 	int err;
 
 	/* always init architecture to setup backtrace support */
+	timer_mode = 0;
 	err = oprofile_arch_init(&oprofile_ops);
+	if (!err) {
+		if (!timer && !oprofilefs_register())
+			return 0;
+		oprofile_arch_exit();
+	}
 
-	timer_mode = err || timer;	/* fall back to timer mode on errors */
-	if (timer_mode) {
-		if (!err)
-			oprofile_arch_exit();
+	/* setup timer mode: */
+	timer_mode = 1;
+	/* no nmi timer mode if oprofile.timer is set */
+	if (timer || op_nmi_timer_init(&oprofile_ops)) {
 		err = oprofile_timer_init(&oprofile_ops);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 	}
 
-	err = oprofilefs_register();
-	if (!err)
-		return 0;
-
-	/* failed */
-	if (timer_mode)
-		oprofile_timer_exit();
-	else
-		oprofile_arch_exit();
-
-	return err;
+	return oprofilefs_register();
 }
 
 
 static void __exit oprofile_exit(void)
 {
 	oprofilefs_unregister();
-	if (timer_mode)
-		oprofile_timer_exit();
-	else
+	if (!timer_mode)
 		oprofile_arch_exit();
 }