Commit-ID: e708d7ad80737496870fd0b6794704d063fb0cdc Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e708d7ad80737496870fd0b6794704d063fb0cdc Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:31:08 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:51:11 +0200 perf: Do poll_wait() before checking condition in perf_poll() One should first enqueue to the waitqueue and then check for the condition. If the condition gets true after mutex_unlock() but before poll_wait() then we lose it and would have wait for another wakeup. This has been like this since v2.6.31-rc1 commit c7138f37f9 ("perf_counter: fix perf_poll()"). Before that it was slightly worse. I guess we get enough wakeups so if we miss here one it doesn't really matter. It is still a bad example. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407159068-1478-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index a254605..2d7363a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3629,6 +3629,7 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) struct ring_buffer *rb; unsigned int events = POLL_HUP; + poll_wait(file, &event->waitq, wait); /* * Pin the event->rb by taking event->mmap_mutex; otherwise * perf_event_set_output() can swizzle our rb and make us miss wakeups. @@ -3638,9 +3639,6 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) if (rb) events = atomic_xchg(&rb->poll, 0); mutex_unlock(&event->mmap_mutex); - - poll_wait(file, &event->waitq, wait); - return events; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html