diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index deee784fefb3..f621039ced37 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e61a639a794063d78fd248a37ce2c21d5c81fc19
+refs/heads/master: e3174cfd2a1e28fff774681f00a0eef3d31da970
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/perf_event.h b/trunk/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 4924c96d7e2d..3fd5c82e0e18 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -575,7 +575,6 @@ struct pmu {
  * enum perf_event_active_state - the states of a event
  */
 enum perf_event_active_state {
-	PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE		= -3,
 	PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR		= -2,
 	PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF		= -1,
 	PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE	=  0,
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/perf_event.c b/trunk/kernel/perf_event.c
index 180151ff8376..a9047463fd83 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -334,9 +334,6 @@ list_del_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
 	if (event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
 		event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF;
 
-	if (event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE)
-		return;
-
 	/*
 	 * If this was a group event with sibling events then
 	 * upgrade the siblings to singleton events by adding them
@@ -1871,8 +1868,6 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
 
-	event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE;
-
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
 	/*
 	 * There are two ways this annotation is useful: