From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf: Fix mux_interval hrtimer wreckage
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:48:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552E6C12.8010702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150415095011.863052571@infradead.org>
Hi Peter:
On 4/15/15 3:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Thomas stumbled over the hrtimer_forward_now() in
> perf_event_mux_interval_ms_store() and noticed its broken-ness.
>
> You cannot just change the expiry time of an active timer, it will
> destroy the red-black tree order and cause havoc.
>
> Change it to (re)start the timer instead, (re)starting a timer will
> dequeue and enqueue a timer and therefore preserve rb-tree order.
Should this be fixed in stable trees as well?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-15 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-15 9:41 [PATCH 0/3] hrtimer (related) fixes Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 9:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] hrtimer: Fix race between hrtimer_start() and __run_hrtimer() Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 10:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-15 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 11:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-15 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-22 19:15 ` [tip:timers/core] hrtimer: Allow concurrent hrtimer_start() for self restarting timers tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-12 13:52 ` Sasha Levin
2015-05-13 13:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-13 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-13 17:25 ` bsegall
2015-05-13 23:09 ` Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-18 15:21 ` [tip:timers/core] sched,perf: Fix periodic timers tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 9:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: Cleanup bandwidth timers Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-16 20:03 ` bsegall
2015-04-22 19:15 ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 9:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf: Fix mux_interval hrtimer wreckage Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 13:48 ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-04-15 14:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-22 15:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-22 19:15 ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
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