Re: perf/x86/amd/power missing pmu::module initialisation

From: Huang Rui
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 07:50:14 EST


Hi Mark,

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 11:33:56AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a heads-up, I believe that arch/x86/events/amd/power.c is currently
> missing initialisation of pmu::module, which could result in problems
> when the module is unloaded.
>
> We've just spotted a similar problem in a couple of ARM PMUs, and AFAICT
> the AMD power PMU is the only other PMU affected.
>
> Other modular PMUs all initialise this to THIS_MODULE prior to calling
> perf_pmu_register().
>

Thanks to let me know. I have dived into pmu for quite a while. Could you
please share more information or forward related mail thread, so that I can
repro this issue in my side. :-)

Thanks,
Rui