4.2.8-ckt7 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 927a5570855836e5d5859a80ce7e91e963545e8f upstream. The error path in perf_event_open() is such that asking for a sampling event on a PMU that doesn't generate interrupts will end up in dropping the perf_sched_count even though it hasn't been incremented for this event yet. Given a sufficient amount of these calls, we'll end up disabling scheduler's jump label even though we'd still have active events in the system, thereby facilitating the arrival of the infernal regions upon us. I'm fixing this by moving account_event() inside perf_event_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: vince@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456917854-29427-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d86859f..ca03e01 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7672,6 +7672,9 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, } } + /* symmetric to unaccount_event() in _free_event() */ + account_event(event); + return event; err_per_task: @@ -8035,8 +8038,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, } } - account_event(event); - /* * Special case software events and allow them to be part of * any hardware group. @@ -8296,8 +8297,6 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, /* Mark owner so we could distinguish it from user events. */ event->owner = EVENT_OWNER_KERNEL; - account_event(event); - ctx = find_get_context(event->pmu, task, event); if (IS_ERR(ctx)) { err = PTR_ERR(ctx); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html