From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:21:20 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf: Fix crash in swevents X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc4~2^2~13 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6df8d5ab87a246942d138321e1721edbb69f6e1;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fkernel-adaptation-intel-automotive.git perf: Fix crash in swevents Frederic reported that because swevents handling doesn't disable IRQs anymore, we can get a recursion of perf_adjust_period(), once from overflow handling and once from the tick. If both call ->disable, we get a double hlist_del_rcu() and trigger a LIST_POISON2 dereference. Since we don't actually need to stop/start a swevent to re-programm the hardware (lack of hardware to program), simply nop out these callbacks for the swevent pmu. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1275557609.27810.35218.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 858f56f..31d6afe 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -4055,13 +4055,6 @@ static void perf_swevent_overflow(struct perf_event *event, u64 overflow, } } -static void perf_swevent_unthrottle(struct perf_event *event) -{ - /* - * Nothing to do, we already reset hwc->interrupts. - */ -} - static void perf_swevent_add(struct perf_event *event, u64 nr, int nmi, struct perf_sample_data *data, struct pt_regs *regs) @@ -4276,11 +4269,22 @@ static void perf_swevent_disable(struct perf_event *event) hlist_del_rcu(&event->hlist_entry); } +static void perf_swevent_void(struct perf_event *event) +{ +} + +static int perf_swevent_int(struct perf_event *event) +{ + return 0; +} + static const struct pmu perf_ops_generic = { .enable = perf_swevent_enable, .disable = perf_swevent_disable, + .start = perf_swevent_int, + .stop = perf_swevent_void, .read = perf_swevent_read, - .unthrottle = perf_swevent_unthrottle, + .unthrottle = perf_swevent_void, /* hwc->interrupts already reset */ }; /* @@ -4561,8 +4565,10 @@ static int swevent_hlist_get(struct perf_event *event) static const struct pmu perf_ops_tracepoint = { .enable = perf_trace_enable, .disable = perf_trace_disable, + .start = perf_swevent_int, + .stop = perf_swevent_void, .read = perf_swevent_read, - .unthrottle = perf_swevent_unthrottle, + .unthrottle = perf_swevent_void, }; static int perf_tp_filter_match(struct perf_event *event,