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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-09-10 12:51:54 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-10 16:24:33 +0200
commitcee010ec5211b96f33c5c2208f5c14ebb04b634a (patch)
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parent3b8fad3e2f5f69bfd8e42d099ca8582fb2342edf (diff)
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perf: Ensure we call add_event_to_ctx() with the right locks held
Even though we call it from the inherit path, where the child is not yet accessible, we need to hold ctx->lock, add_event_to_ctx() assumes IRQs are disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index eaf1c5d..f395fb4 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -5913,6 +5913,7 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event,
struct perf_event_context *child_ctx)
{
struct perf_event *child_event;
+ unsigned long flags;
/*
* Instead of creating recursive hierarchies of events,
@@ -5957,7 +5958,9 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event,
/*
* Link it up in the child's context:
*/
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&child_ctx->lock, flags);
add_event_to_ctx(child_event, child_ctx);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock, flags);
/*
* Get a reference to the parent filp - we will fput it
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