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perf_counter: fix counter inheritance race
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 17 May 2009 09:24:08 +0000 (11:24 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 19 May 2009 22:22:30 +0000 (00:22 +0200)
commit72ee63f1f745a52f5ef10c57add3f3b3e291330d
treea620d5b82a07b2e2c8c7c57d2e81d5bfdcdd4c25
parent5ba85e28c6e0388c226f71491835895b97f94399
perf_counter: fix counter inheritance race

Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of
walking the counter list when inheriting counters ...

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/perf_counter.h
kernel/perf_counter.c