From 856d56b9e5de650a64a6c41c17aaed702b55d578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 20:45:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter: Fix counter inheritance Srivatsa Vaddagiri reported that a Java workload triggers this warning in kernel/exit.c: WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&tsk->perf_counter_ctx.counter_list)); Add the inherited counter propagation on self-detach, this could cause counter leaks and incomplete stats in threaded code like the below: #include #include void *thread(void *arg) { sleep(5); return NULL; } void main(void) { pthread_t thr; pthread_create(&thr, NULL, thread, NULL); } Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/exit.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 4741376c8dec..16d74f13a3e7 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk) sig = NULL; /* Marker for below. */ } + /* + * Flush inherited counters to the parent - before the parent + * gets woken up by child-exit notifications. + */ + perf_counter_exit_task(tsk); + __unhash_process(tsk); /* -- 2.20.1