On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Suzuki Poulose wrote: > On 10/23/20 8:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > So then I don't understand the !->owner issue, that only happens when > > the task dies, which cannot be concurrent with event creation. Are you > > Part of the patch from Sai, fixes this by avoiding the dereferencing > after event creation (by caching it). But the kernel events needs > fixing. I'm fundamentally failing here. Creating a link to the sink is strictly event-creation time. Why would you ever need it again later? Later you already have the sink setup.