Star64_linux/kernel
Peter Zijlstra a0507c84bf perf: Annotate perf_event_read_group() vs perf_event_release_kernel()
Stephane reported a lockdep warning while using PERF_FORMAT_GROUP.

The issue is that perf_event_read_group() takes faults while holding
the ctx->mutex, while perf_event_release_kernel() can be called from
munmap(). Which makes for an AB-BA deadlock.

Except we can never establish the deadlock because we'll only ever
call perf_event_release_kernel() after all file descriptors are dead
so there is no concurrency possible.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07 11:30:59 +02:00
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gcov
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-04-06 13:03:22 -07:00
power PM / Hibernate: user.c, fix SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA handling 2010-04-10 22:28:56 +02:00
time
trace perf: Fix check at end of event search 2010-05-06 19:49:52 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c
audit.h
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c audit: preface audit printk with audit 2010-04-05 13:19:45 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c
cgroup_freezer.c rcu: Fix RCU lockdep splat on freezer_fork path 2010-04-30 12:03:17 +02:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
cred-internals.h
cred.c CRED: Fix a race in creds_are_invalid() in credentials debugging 2010-04-22 09:14:29 +10:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
early_res.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss() 2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core 2010-04-08 13:37:18 +02:00
freezer.c
futex.c
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c hw_breakpoints: Fix percpu build failure 2010-05-04 08:39:36 +02:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep.c Merge branch 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc 2010-04-05 09:39:11 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
Makefile
module.c Fix up possibly racy module refcounting 2010-04-05 19:50:02 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
perf_event.c perf: Annotate perf_event_read_group() vs perf_event_release_kernel() 2010-05-07 11:30:59 +02:00
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
rcupdate.c rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable 2010-04-19 08:37:19 +02:00
rcutiny.c
rcutorture.c
rcutree.c
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h
rcutree_trace.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2010-05-07 11:30:30 +02:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c
slow-work-debugfs.c
slow-work.c
slow-work.h
smp.c
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c kernel/sys.c: fix compat uname machine 2010-04-24 11:31:24 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c
workqueue.c workqueue: flush_delayed_work: keep the original workqueue for re-queueing 2010-04-30 07:24:51 +02:00