perf: Fix event->ctx locking
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:24:14 +0000 (12:24 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 03:51:04 +0000 (03:51 +0000)
commitf8ab792cab4a7c86288b8fba946a27a3e3119f46
tree455d5e3442ef445e5c52e570219591ad3c7d454d
parent45b5aba2c6a8fa9a62a35a3801b15e23b98f19d5
perf: Fix event->ctx locking

commit f63a8daa5812afef4f06c962351687e1ff9ccb2b upstream.

There have been a few reported issues wrt. the lack of locking around
changing event->ctx. This patch tries to address those.

It avoids the whole rwsem thing; and while it appears to work, please
give it some thought in review.

What I did fail at is sensible runtime checks on the use of
event->ctx, the RCU use makes it very hard.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.209535886@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - We don't have perf_pmu_migrate_context()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/events/core.c