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Peter Zijlstra authored
There is a very nasty problem wrt disabling the perf task scheduling hooks. Currently we {set,clear} ctx->is_active on every __perf_event_task_sched_{in,out}, _however_ this means that if we disable these calls we'll have task contexts with ->is_active set that are not active and 'active' task contexts without ->is_active set. This can result in event_function_call() looping on the ctx->is_active condition basically indefinitely. Resolve this by changing things such that contexts without events do not set ->is_active like we used to. From this invariant it trivially follows that if there are no (task) events, every task ctx is inactive and disabling the context switch hooks is harmless. This leaves two places that need attention (and already had accumulated weird and wonderful hacks to work around, without recognising this actual problem). Namely: - perf_install_in_context() will need to deal with installing events in an inactive context, meaning it cannot rely on ctx-is_active for its IPIs. - perf_remove_from_context() will have to mark a context as inactive when it removes the last event. For specific detail, see the patch/comments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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