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perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
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Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work
as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before
the read() call.

The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we
remove counters from their context. Fix this by only doing this when
we free the counter itself.

Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1273160566.5605.404.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed May 7, 2010
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/perf_event.h
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Expand Up @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ struct pmu {
* enum perf_event_active_state - the states of a event
*/
enum perf_event_active_state {
PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE = -3,
PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR = -2,
PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF = -1,
PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE = 0,
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions kernel/perf_event.c
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Expand Up @@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ list_del_event(struct perf_event *event, struct perf_event_context *ctx)
if (event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF;

if (event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE)
return;

/*
* If this was a group event with sibling events then
* upgrade the siblings to singleton events by adding them
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{
struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;

event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_FREE;

WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
perf_event_remove_from_context(event);
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