[PATCH] perf: Detach group events when removing event from ctx

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Sun Oct 03 2010 - 15:35:58 EST


When removing an event from a task's list of events we need to make sure
that we also detach all group events. If we don't, then when we later
call perf_group_attach() we'll hit the WARN_ON_ONCE() like so,

[ 1200.449161] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1200.449171] WARNING: at kernel/perf_event.c:313 add_event_to_ctx+0xe1/0x159()
[ 1200.449174] Hardware name: MacBook2,1
[ 1200.449176] Modules linked in: dm_mod sg sd_mod
[ 1200.449183] Pid: 7619, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6-tip+ #2
[ 1200.449186] Call Trace:
[ 1200.449193] [<ffffffff8103b71e>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9d
[ 1200.449197] [<ffffffff8103b750>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
[ 1200.449201] [<ffffffff810a16fb>] add_event_to_ctx+0xe1/0x159
[ 1200.449206] [<ffffffff810a2f01>] perf_install_in_context+0x85/0x99
[ 1200.449210] [<ffffffff810a7811>] sys_perf_event_open+0x4da/0x633
[ 1200.449216] [<ffffffff81002b1b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 1200.449218] ---[ end trace 9df38c30c6cacb50 ]---

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/perf_event.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index c16158c..c13d869 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -550,8 +550,11 @@ retry:
* can remove the event safely, if the call above did not
* succeed.
*/
- if (!list_empty(&event->group_entry))
+ if (!list_empty(&event->group_entry)) {
+ perf_group_detach(event);
list_del_event(event, ctx);
+ }
+
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
}

--
1.7.1

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