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perf: Cure event->pending_disable race
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Because event_sched_out() checks event->pending_disable _before_
actually disabling the event, it can happen that the event fires after
it checks but before it gets disabled.

This would leave event->pending_disable set and the queued irq_work
will try and process it.

However, if the event trigger was during schedule(), the event might
have been de-scheduled by the time the irq_work runs, and
perf_event_disable_local() will fail.

Fix this by checking event->pending_disable _after_ we call
event->pmu->del(). This depends on the latter being a compiler
barrier, such that the compiler does not lift the load and re-creates
the problem.

Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174948.040469884@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed Feb 25, 2016
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions kernel/events/core.c
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@@ -1696,14 +1696,14 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,

perf_pmu_disable(event->pmu);

event->tstamp_stopped = tstamp;
event->pmu->del(event, 0);
event->oncpu = -1;
event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE;
if (event->pending_disable) {
event->pending_disable = 0;
event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF;
}
event->tstamp_stopped = tstamp;
event->pmu->del(event, 0);
event->oncpu = -1;

if (!is_software_event(event))
cpuctx->active_oncpu--;

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