Commit 5e9a1167 authored by John Levon's avatar John Levon Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] OProfile: thread switching performance fix

Avoid the linear list walk of get_exec_dcookie() when we've switched to a task
using the same mm.
parent 438612ea
......@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static void sync_buffer(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer * cpu_buf)
{
struct mm_struct * mm = 0;
struct task_struct * new;
unsigned long cookie;
unsigned long cookie = 0;
int in_kernel = 1;
unsigned int i;
......@@ -442,13 +442,15 @@ static void sync_buffer(struct oprofile_cpu_buffer * cpu_buf)
in_kernel = s->event;
add_kernel_ctx_switch(s->event);
} else {
struct mm_struct * oldmm = mm;
/* userspace context switch */
new = (struct task_struct *)s->event;
release_mm(mm);
release_mm(oldmm);
mm = take_tasks_mm(new);
cookie = get_exec_dcookie(mm);
if (mm != oldmm)
cookie = get_exec_dcookie(mm);
add_user_ctx_switch(new, cookie);
}
} else {
......
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