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perf_event: Fix cgrp event scheduling bug in perf_enable_on_exec()
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There is a bug in perf_event_enable_on_exec() when cgroup events are
active on a CPU: the cgroup events may be scheduled twice causing event
state corruptions which eventually may lead to kernel panics.

The reason is that the function needs to first schedule out the cgroup
events, just like for the per-thread events. The cgroup event are
scheduled back in automatically from the perf_event_context_sched_in()
function.

The patch also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() is perf_cgroup_switch() to catch any
bogus state.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110406005454.GA1062@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stephane Eranian authored and Ingo Molnar committed Apr 11, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ void perf_cgroup_switch(struct task_struct *task, int mode)
}

if (mode & PERF_CGROUP_SWIN) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuctx->cgrp);
/* set cgrp before ctxsw in to
* allow event_filter_match() to not
* have to pass task around
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2423,6 +2424,14 @@ static void perf_event_enable_on_exec(struct perf_event_context *ctx)
if (!ctx || !ctx->nr_events)
goto out;

/*
* We must ctxsw out cgroup events to avoid conflict
* when invoking perf_task_event_sched_in() later on
* in this function. Otherwise we end up trying to
* ctxswin cgroup events which are already scheduled
* in.
*/
perf_cgroup_sched_out(current);
task_ctx_sched_out(ctx, EVENT_ALL);

raw_spin_lock(&ctx->lock);
Expand All @@ -2447,6 +2456,9 @@ static void perf_event_enable_on_exec(struct perf_event_context *ctx)

raw_spin_unlock(&ctx->lock);

/*
* Also calls ctxswin for cgroup events, if any:
*/
perf_event_context_sched_in(ctx, ctx->task);
out:
local_irq_restore(flags);
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