perf_counter: fix the output lock
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tue, 5 May 2009 15:50:25 +0000 (17:50 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 5 May 2009 18:18:32 +0000 (20:18 +0200)
Use -1 instead of 0 as unlocked, since 0 is a valid cpu number.

( This is not an issue right now but will be once we allow multiple
  counters to output to the same mmap area. )

[ Impact: prepare code for multi-counter profile output ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.232686598@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/perf_counter.c

index 2d13427383051fdb2fa421be6ecfd787aff34452..c881afef997b94c1c2b9fcb05c6c3a3e2cfb8996 100644 (file)
@@ -1409,6 +1409,7 @@ static int perf_mmap_data_alloc(struct perf_counter *counter, int nr_pages)
        }
 
        data->nr_pages = nr_pages;
+       atomic_set(&data->lock, -1);
 
        rcu_assign_pointer(counter->data, data);
 
@@ -1755,7 +1756,7 @@ static void perf_output_lock(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
        if (in_nmi() && atomic_read(&data->lock) == cpu)
                return;
 
-       while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+       while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, -1, cpu) != -1)
                cpu_relax();
 
        handle->locked = 1;
@@ -1784,7 +1785,7 @@ again:
         * NMI can happen here, which means we can miss a done_head update.
         */
 
-       cpu = atomic_xchg(&data->lock, 0);
+       cpu = atomic_xchg(&data->lock, -1);
        WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu != smp_processor_id());
 
        /*
@@ -1794,7 +1795,7 @@ again:
                /*
                 * Since we had it locked, we can lock it again.
                 */
-               while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, 0, cpu) != 0)
+               while (atomic_cmpxchg(&data->lock, -1, cpu) != -1)
                        cpu_relax();
 
                goto again;