From c97f473643a9d3e618c0f0426b926bc3a3e23944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:51:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Add more assertions Try to trigger warnings before races do damage. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 6620432491f6..3eaf91b104e9 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -263,6 +263,15 @@ static void event_function_call(struct perf_event *event, event_f func, void *da .data = data, }; + if (!event->parent) { + /* + * If this is a !child event, we must hold ctx::mutex to + * stabilize the the event->ctx relation. See + * perf_event_ctx_lock(). + */ + lockdep_assert_held(&ctx->mutex); + } + if (!task) { cpu_function_call(event->cpu, event_function, &efs); return; -- 2.20.1