From a69b0ca4ac3bf5427b571f11cbf33f0a32b728d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:45:44 +0100 Subject: perf: Fix cloning Alexander reported that when the 'original' context gets destroyed, no new clones happen. This can happen irrespective of the ctx switch optimization, any task can die, even the parent, and we want to continue monitoring the task hierarchy until we either close the event or no tasks are left in the hierarchy. perf_event_init_context() will attempt to pin the 'parent' context during clone(). At that point current is the parent, and since current cannot have exited while executing clone(), its context cannot have passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). Therefore perf_pin_task_context() cannot observe ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE. However, since inherit_event() does: if (parent_event->parent) parent_event = parent_event->parent; it looks at the 'original' event when it does: is_orphaned_event(). This can return true if the context that contains the this event has passed through perf_event_exit_task_context(). And thus we'll fail to clone the perf context. Fix this by adding a new state: STATE_DEAD, which is set by perf_release() to indicate that the filedesc (or kernel reference) is dead and there are no observers for our data left. Only for STATE_DEAD will is_orphaned_event() be true and inhibit cloning. STATE_EXIT is otherwise preserved such that is_event_hup() remains functional and will report when the observed task hierarchy becomes empty. Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 Fixes: c6e5b73242d2 ("perf: Synchronously clean up child events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.919845295@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index b35a61a481fa..39156619e108 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ struct pmu { * enum perf_event_active_state - the states of a event */ enum perf_event_active_state { + PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD = -4, PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT = -3, PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR = -2, PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF = -1, -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317