On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 05:15:31PM +0800, Like Xu wrote: > Exporting perf_event_pause() as an external accessor for kernel users (such > as KVM) who may do both disable perf_event and read count with just one > time to hold perf_event_ctx_lock. Also the value could be reset optionally. > +u64 perf_event_pause(struct perf_event *event, bool reset) > +{ > + struct perf_event_context *ctx; > + u64 count, enabled, running; > + > + ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock(event); > + _perf_event_disable(event); > + count = __perf_event_read_value(event, &enabled, &running); > + if (reset) > + local64_set(&event->count, 0); This local64_set() already assumes there are no child events, so maybe write the thing like: WARN_ON_ONCE(event->attr.inherit); _perf_event_disable(event); count = local64_read(&event->count); local64_set(&event->count, 0); > + perf_event_ctx_unlock(event, ctx); > + > + return count; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_pause);