Commit c44d70a3 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar

perf_counter: fix counter inheritance race

Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of
walking the counter list when inheriting counters ...

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 33b2fb30
...@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ struct perf_counter_context { ...@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ struct perf_counter_context {
int nr_counters; int nr_counters;
int nr_active; int nr_active;
int is_active; int is_active;
int rr_allowed;
struct task_struct *task; struct task_struct *task;
/* /*
......
...@@ -1120,6 +1120,7 @@ void perf_counter_task_tick(struct task_struct *curr, int cpu) ...@@ -1120,6 +1120,7 @@ void perf_counter_task_tick(struct task_struct *curr, int cpu)
__perf_counter_task_sched_out(ctx); __perf_counter_task_sched_out(ctx);
rotate_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx); rotate_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx);
if (ctx->rr_allowed)
rotate_ctx(ctx); rotate_ctx(ctx);
perf_counter_cpu_sched_in(cpuctx, cpu); perf_counter_cpu_sched_in(cpuctx, cpu);
...@@ -3108,6 +3109,7 @@ __perf_counter_init_context(struct perf_counter_context *ctx, ...@@ -3108,6 +3109,7 @@ __perf_counter_init_context(struct perf_counter_context *ctx,
mutex_init(&ctx->mutex); mutex_init(&ctx->mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->counter_list); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->counter_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->event_list); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->event_list);
ctx->rr_allowed = 1;
ctx->task = task; ctx->task = task;
} }
...@@ -3348,6 +3350,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) ...@@ -3348,6 +3350,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
*/ */
mutex_lock(&parent_ctx->mutex); mutex_lock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
parent_ctx->rr_allowed = 0;
barrier(); /* irqs */
/* /*
* We dont have to disable NMIs - we are only looking at * We dont have to disable NMIs - we are only looking at
* the list, not manipulating it: * the list, not manipulating it:
...@@ -3361,6 +3366,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) ...@@ -3361,6 +3366,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
break; break;
} }
barrier(); /* irqs */
parent_ctx->rr_allowed = 1;
mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex); mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
} }
......
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