Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] perf: Clean up ctx reference counting

From: Lin Ming
Date: Mon Apr 11 2011 - 02:06:28 EST


On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 03:17 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Small cleanup to how we refcount in find_get_context(), this also
> allows us to use put_ctx() to free things instead of using kfree().
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/perf_event.c | 10 +++-------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
> @@ -2831,16 +2831,12 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct
> unclone_ctx(ctx);
> ++ctx->pin_count;
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
> - }
> -
> - if (!ctx) {
> + } else {
> ctx = alloc_perf_context(pmu, task);
> err = -ENOMEM;
> if (!ctx)
> goto errout;
>
> - get_ctx(ctx);
> -
> err = 0;
> mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
> /*
> @@ -2852,14 +2848,14 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct
> else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])
> err = -EAGAIN;
> else {
> + get_ctx(ctx);
> ++ctx->pin_count;
> rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx);
> }
> mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
>
> if (unlikely(err)) {
> - put_task_struct(task);
> - kfree(ctx);
> + put_ctx(ctx);

You moved the get_ctx(), so it seems that this put_ctx is missing its
relevant get_ctx.

Lin Ming

>
> if (err == -EAGAIN)
> goto retry;
>
>
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