From 25346b93ca079080c9cb23331db5c4f6404e8530 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:48:12 +1000 Subject: perf_counter: Provide functions for locking and pinning the context for a task This abstracts out the code for locking the context associated with a task. Because the context might get transferred from one task to another concurrently, we have to check after locking the context that it is still the right context for the task and retry if not. This was open-coded in find_get_context() and perf_counter_init_task(). This adds a further function for pinning the context for a task, i.e. marking it so it can't be transferred to another task. This adds a 'pin_count' field to struct perf_counter_context to indicate that a context is pinned, instead of the previous method of setting the parent_gen count to all 1s. Pinning the context with a pin_count is easier to undo and doesn't require saving the parent_gen value. This also adds a perf_unpin_context() to undo the effect of perf_pin_task_context() and changes perf_counter_init_task to use it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: John Kacur LKML-Reference: <18979.34748.755674.596386@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_counter.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index 519a41b..81ec79c 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ struct perf_counter_context { struct perf_counter_context *parent_ctx; u64 parent_gen; u64 generation; + int pin_count; struct rcu_head rcu_head; }; -- cgit v1.1