perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting
Its currently possible to drop the last refcount to the aux buffer
from NMI context, which results in the expected fireworks.
The refcounting needs a bigger overhaul, but to cure the immediate
problem, delay the freeing by using an irq_work.
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150618103249.GK19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
index 2deb24c..2bbad9c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
struct ring_buffer {
atomic_t refcount;
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
+ struct irq_work irq_work;
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
struct work_struct work;
int page_order; /* allocation order */
@@ -55,6 +56,15 @@
};
extern void rb_free(struct ring_buffer *rb);
+
+static inline void rb_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
+{
+ struct ring_buffer *rb;
+
+ rb = container_of(rcu_head, struct ring_buffer, rcu_head);
+ rb_free(rb);
+}
+
extern struct ring_buffer *
rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags);
extern void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event);
