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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2010-05-11 11:51:53 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-07-05 11:21:55 -0700
commit03d7c94a14acd55388d9c5e50503c4969e0ba164 (patch)
tree02162e8d54387d129a9120b09e6092a963e87e45 /kernel
parent08959bab0e65a42ff0d10fde4982939b472a7a96 (diff)
perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
commit 050735b08ca8a016bbace4445fa025b88fee770b upstream. Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before the read() call. The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we remove counters from their context. Fix this by splitting off the group destroy from the list removal such that perf_event_remove_from_context() does not do this and change perf_event_release() to do so. Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1273571513.5605.3527.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 3d1552d3c12b..130e0a2f0f04 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -315,8 +315,6 @@ list_add_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
static void
list_del_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
{
- struct perf_event *sibling, *tmp;
-
if (list_empty(&event->group_entry))
return;
ctx->nr_events--;
@@ -340,6 +338,12 @@ 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;
+}
+
+static void
+perf_destroy_group(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
+{
+ struct perf_event *sibling, *tmp;
/*
* If this was a group event with sibling events then
@@ -1856,9 +1860,18 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
{
struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
+ /*
+ * Remove from the PMU, can't get re-enabled since we got
+ * here because the last ref went.
+ */
+ perf_event_disable(event);
+
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
- perf_event_remove_from_context(event);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+ list_del_event(event, ctx);
+ perf_destroy_group(event, ctx);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
mutex_lock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex);