From 669336e4cf3e1cb95800f3f5924558a76d723c21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:29:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call We use synchronize_sched() to ensure a tracepoint won't be called while/after we release the perf buffers it references. But the tracepoint API has its own API for that: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(). Use it instead as it's self-explanatory and eases maintainance. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Li Zefan --- kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c index 2375165..000e6e8 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c @@ -131,10 +131,10 @@ void perf_trace_destroy(struct perf_event *p_event) tp_event->class->reg(tp_event, TRACE_REG_PERF_UNREGISTER); /* - * Ensure our callback won't be called anymore. See - * tracepoint_probe_unregister() and __DO_TRACE(). + * Ensure our callback won't be called anymore. The buffers + * will be freed after that. */ - synchronize_sched(); + tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(); free_percpu(tp_event->perf_events); tp_event->perf_events = NULL; -- 2.7.4