[PATCH 3.15 079/109] perf: Do not allow optimized switch for non-cloned events

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-26T19:02:41Z

From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

commit 1f9a7268c67f0290837aada443d28fd953ddca90 upstream.

The context check in perf_event_context_sched_out allows
non-cloned context to be part of the optimized schedule
out switch.

This could move non-cloned context into another workload
child. Once this child exits, the context is closed and
leaves all original (parent) events in closed state.

Any other new cloned event will have closed state and not
measure anything. And probably causing other odd bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403598026-2310-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2315,7 +2315,7 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_out
next_parent = rcu_dereference(next_ctx->parent_ctx);

/* If neither context have a parent context; they cannot be clones. */
- if (!parent && !next_parent)
+ if (!parent || !next_parent)
goto unlock;

if (next_parent == ctx || next_ctx == parent || next_parent == parent) {