From 1903d50cba54261a6562a476c05085f3d7a54097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:27:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Revert ("perf: Always destroy groups on exit") Vince reported that commit 15a2d4de0eab5 ("perf: Always destroy groups on exit") causes a regression with grouped events. In particular his read_group_attached.c test fails. https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests/blob/master/tests/bugs/read_group_attached.c Because of the context switch optimization in perf_event_context_sched_out() the 'original' event may end up in the child process and when that exits the change in the patch in question destroys the actual grouping. Therefore revert that change and only destroy inherited groups. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zedy3uktcp753q8fw8dagx7a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index b0c95f0f06fd..c46b02bfe179 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7458,7 +7458,19 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event, struct perf_event_context *child_ctx, struct task_struct *child) { - perf_remove_from_context(child_event, true); + /* + * Do not destroy the 'original' grouping; because of the context + * switch optimization the original events could've ended up in a + * random child task. + * + * If we were to destroy the original group, all group related + * operations would cease to function properly after this random + * child dies. + * + * Do destroy all inherited groups, we don't care about those + * and being thorough is better. + */ + perf_remove_from_context(child_event, !!child_event->parent); /* * It can happen that the parent exits first, and has events -- 2.20.1