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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-06-23 23:00:37 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-06-24 23:33:40 +0200
commit45a73372efe4a63f44aa2e1125d4a777c2fdc8d8 (patch)
treed8fbdb1447ec7caac75c73101cf941ba90ed9ced /include/linux/perf_event.h
parentc882e0feb937af4e5b991cbd1c81536f37053e86 (diff)
hw_breakpoints: Fix per task breakpoint tracking
Freeing a perf event can happen in several ways. A task calls perf_event_exit_task() right before exiting. This helper will detach all the events from the task context and queue their removal through free_event() if they are child tasks. The task also loses its context reference there. Releasing the breakpoint slot from the constraint table is made from free_event() that calls release_bp_slot(). We count the number of breakpoints this task is running by looking at the task's perf_event_ctxp and iterating through its attached events. But at this time, the reference to this context has been cleaned up already. So looking at the event->ctx instead of task->perf_event_ctxp to count the remaining breakpoints should solve the problem. At least it would for child breakpoints, but not for parent ones. If the parent exits before the child, it will remove all its events from the context but free_event() will be called later, on fd release time. And checking the number of breakpoints the task has attached to its context at this time is unreliable as all events have been removed from the context. To solve this, we keep track of the list of per task breakpoints. On top of it, we maintain our array of numbers of breakpoints used by the tasks. We use the context address as a task id. So, instead of looking at the number of events attached to a context, we walk through our list of per task breakpoints and count the number of breakpoints that use the same ctx than the one to be reserved or released from the constraint table, and update the count on top of this result. In the meantime it solves a bad refcounting, it also solves a warning, reported by Paul. Badness at /home/paulus/kernel/perf/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:114 NIP: c0000000000cb470 LR: c0000000000cb46c CTR: c00000000032d9b8 REGS: c000000118e7b570 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.35-rc3-perf-00008-g76b0f13 ) MSR: 9000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 44004424 XER: 000fffff TASK = c0000001187dcad0[3143] 'perf' THREAD: c000000118e78000 CPU: 1 GPR00: c0000000000cb46c c000000118e7b7f0 c0000000009866a0 0000000000000020 GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001d 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR08: c0000000009bed68 c00000000086dff8 c000000000a5bf10 0000000000000001 GPR12: 0000000024004422 c00000000ffff200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 00000000101150f4 GPR20: 0000000010206b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000101150f4 GPR24: c0000001199090c0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000008ec290 0000000000000000 NIP [c0000000000cb470] .task_bp_pinned+0x5c/0x12c LR [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c Call Trace: [c000000118e7b7f0] [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c (unreliable) [c000000118e7b8a0] [c0000000000cb584] .toggle_bp_task_slot+0x44/0xe4 [c000000118e7b940] [c0000000000cb6c8] .toggle_bp_slot+0xa4/0x164 [c000000118e7b9f0] [c0000000000cbafc] .release_bp_slot+0x44/0x6c [c000000118e7ba80] [c0000000000c4178] .bp_perf_event_destroy+0x10/0x24 [c000000118e7bb00] [c0000000000c4aec] .free_event+0x180/0x1bc [c000000118e7bbc0] [c0000000000c54c4] .perf_event_release_kernel+0x14c/0x170 Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 63b5aa5dce69..0dd5f8ad77ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -533,8 +533,10 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
struct hrtimer hrtimer;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
- /* breakpoint */
- struct arch_hw_breakpoint info;
+ struct { /* breakpoint */
+ struct arch_hw_breakpoint info;
+ struct list_head bp_list;
+ };
#endif
};
local64_t prev_count;