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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] perf: panic due to inclied cpu context task_ctx value
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:49:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301327368.4859.28.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301324275.4859.25.camel@twins>

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Wait... Yes, we have to clear ctx->is_active, otherwise we break, say,
> > perf_install_in_context().
> > 
> > But if we clear ->is_active we break perf_event_enable(). Suppose we
> > are doing ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE) + ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE).
> > PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE can sched_out the last event, but _IOC_ENABLE
> > treats ctx->is_active == F as "it is not running".
> 
> Right, same for the tick, if say we can only schedule 1 event at a time
> and we close the 1 event that is active, the tick will not rotate a new
> event in. 

Another fun race, suppose we do properly remove task_ctx and is_active,
but then the task gets scheduled back in before free_event() gets around
to disabling the jump_label..



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 16:44 [PATCH,RFC] perf: panic due to inclied cpu context task_ctx value Jiri Olsa
2011-03-25 19:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-26 15:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-26 16:13   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-26 16:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-26 17:09       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-26 17:35         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-26 18:29           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-26 18:49             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-28 13:30             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-28 14:57               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-28 15:00                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-28 15:15                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-28 16:27                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-28 15:39                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-28 15:49                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-03-28 16:56                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-29  8:32                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-29 10:49                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-29 16:28                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-29 19:01                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 13:09                     ` Jiri Olsa
2011-03-30 14:51                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 16:37                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-30 18:30                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-30 19:53                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-30 21:26                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 21:35                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-31 10:32                             ` Jiri Olsa
2011-03-31 12:41                             ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Fix task context scheduling tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-31 13:28                         ` [PATCH,RFC] perf: panic due to inclied cpu context task_ctx value Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-31 13:51                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-31 14:10                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-04-04 16:20                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-30 15:32                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-30 15:40                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 15:52                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-30 15:57                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 16:11                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-30 17:13                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-03-26 17:09       ` Peter Zijlstra

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