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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-11-09 19:01:43 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-11-18 13:18:46 +0100 |
commit | 8882135bcd332f294df5455747ea43ba9e6f77ad (patch) | |
tree | 758f26d26750fd5007e885cc28125f7c1fa24ca6 /kernel/irq_work.c | |
parent | Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/f... (diff) | |
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perf: Fix owner-list vs exit
Oleg noticed that a perf-fd keeping a reference on the creating task
leads to a few funny side effects.
There's two different aspects to this:
- kernel based perf-events, these should not take out
a reference on the creating task and appear on the task's
event list since they're not bound to fds nor visible
to userspace.
- fork() and pthread_create(), these can lead to the creating
task dying (and thus the task's event-list becomming useless)
but keeping the list and ref alive until the event is closed.
Combined they lead to malfunction of the ptrace hw_tracepoints.
Cure this by not considering kernel based perf_events for the
owner-list and destroying the owner-list when the owner dies.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289576883.2084.286.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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