Re: [PATCH,RFC] perf: panic due to inclied cpu context task_ctx value

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 03/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 18:35 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 03/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > On 03/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
> > > > index c75925c..e9e4e35 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/perf_event.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
> > > > @@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,
> > > >  	if (!is_software_event(event))
> > > >  		cpuctx->active_oncpu--;
> > > >  	ctx->nr_active--;
> > > > +	if (!ctx->nr_active && cpuctx->task_ctx == ctx)
> > > > +		cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL;
> > >
> > > If we clear cpuctx->task_ctx, we should also clear ctx->is_active.
>
> Right.

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".


Btw, why ctx_sched_out() checks nr_events under perf_pmu_disable() ?

Oleg.