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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-06-13 10:45:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-06-13 10:45:49 -0700
commitc78a9b9b8e36b8de302eddbe7a1688af3d9650ff (patch)
tree3857996cf30ae6a60b5afe2e1e3e30f75fbca05e /drivers
parent842c895d140a75e5d67fa346213deb3ca2b460f8 (diff)
parent5f127133ee432d0b83ee26e8e3a3d7828ab5f2b1 (diff)
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Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6 ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency oprofile: Fix locking dependency in sync_start() oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
index a3984f4..f34b5b2 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
@@ -141,6 +141,13 @@ static struct notifier_block module_load_nb = {
.notifier_call = module_load_notify,
};
+static void free_all_tasks(void)
+{
+ /* make sure we don't leak task structs */
+ process_task_mortuary();
+ process_task_mortuary();
+}
+
int sync_start(void)
{
int err;
@@ -148,8 +155,6 @@ int sync_start(void)
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&marked_cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
- mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
-
err = task_handoff_register(&task_free_nb);
if (err)
goto out1;
@@ -166,7 +171,6 @@ int sync_start(void)
start_cpu_work();
out:
- mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex);
return err;
out4:
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_MUNMAP, &munmap_nb);
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ out3:
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_TASK_EXIT, &task_exit_nb);
out2:
task_handoff_unregister(&task_free_nb);
+ free_all_tasks();
out1:
free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus);
goto out;
@@ -182,20 +187,16 @@ out1:
void sync_stop(void)
{
- /* flush buffers */
- mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
end_cpu_work();
unregister_module_notifier(&module_load_nb);
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_MUNMAP, &munmap_nb);
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_TASK_EXIT, &task_exit_nb);
task_handoff_unregister(&task_free_nb);
- mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex);
- flush_cpu_work();
+ barrier(); /* do all of the above first */
- /* make sure we don't leak task structs */
- process_task_mortuary();
- process_task_mortuary();
+ flush_cpu_work();
+ free_all_tasks();
free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus);
}