From 57ffc5ca679f499f4704fd9b6a372916f59930ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:32:49 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting Its currently possible to drop the last refcount to the aux buffer from NMI context, which results in the expected fireworks. The refcounting needs a bigger overhaul, but to cure the immediate problem, delay the freeing by using an irq_work. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Alexander Shishkin Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150618103249.GK19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/internal.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/events/internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h index 2deb24c7a40d..2bbad9c1274c 100644 --- a/kernel/events/internal.h +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ struct ring_buffer { atomic_t refcount; struct rcu_head rcu_head; + struct irq_work irq_work; #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC struct work_struct work; int page_order; /* allocation order */ @@ -55,6 +56,15 @@ struct ring_buffer { }; extern void rb_free(struct ring_buffer *rb); + +static inline void rb_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head) +{ + struct ring_buffer *rb; + + rb = container_of(rcu_head, struct ring_buffer, rcu_head); + rb_free(rb); +} + extern struct ring_buffer * rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags); extern void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event); -- cgit v1.2.1