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    perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock · b91fc39f
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
    management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
    concurrent access.
    
    That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
    and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
    hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
    threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
    hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
    it.
    
    So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
    get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
    return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
    keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
    that data structure.
    
    I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
    "perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".
    
    The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
    several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
    for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
    addr_location__put() time.
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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