Jaswinder reported this #GP:

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 | Message from syslogd@ht at May 14 09:39:32 ...
 | kernel:[  314.908612] EIP: [<c100ccca>]
 | x86_perf_event_set_period+0x19d/0x1b2 SS:ESP 0068:edac3d70
 |

Ming has narrowed it down to a comparision issue
between arguments with different sizes and
signs. As result event index reached a wrong
value which in turn led to a GP fault.

At the same time it was found that p4_next_cntr
has broken logic and should return the counter
index only if it was not yet borrowed for
another event.
Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100514190815.GG13509@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>