[tip:perf/core] perf: Find task before event alloc

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

Commit-ID:  c6be5a5cb62592d9d661899a2aa78236eb00ffa5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/c6be5a5cb62592d9d661899a2aa78236eb00ffa5
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:59:46 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:58:54 +0200

perf: Find task before event alloc

So that we can pass the task pointer to the event allocation, so that
we can use task associated data during event initialization.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101014203625.340789919@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index f928878..b21d06a 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -5551,10 +5551,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 			group_leader = NULL;
 	}
 
+	if (pid != -1) {
+		task = find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid);
+		if (IS_ERR(task)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(task);
+			goto err_group_fd;
+		}
+	}
+
 	event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, group_leader, NULL, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(event);
-		goto err_fd;
+		goto err_task;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -5586,21 +5594,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (pid != -1) {
-		task = find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid);
-		if (IS_ERR(task)) {
-			err = PTR_ERR(task);
-			goto err_group_fd;
-		}
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Get the target context (task or percpu):
 	 */
 	ctx = find_get_context(pmu, task, cpu);
 	if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
-		goto err_task;
+		goto err_alloc;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -5696,12 +5696,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 
 err_context:
 	put_ctx(ctx);
+err_alloc:
+	free_event(event);
 err_task:
 	if (task)
 		put_task_struct(task);
 err_group_fd:
 	fput_light(group_file, fput_needed);
-	free_event(event);
 err_fd:
 	put_unused_fd(event_fd);
 	return err;