This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-fix-perf_cgroup_switch-for-sw-events.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 95cf59ea72331d0093010543b8951bb43f262cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:41:23 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> commit 95cf59ea72331d0093010543b8951bb43f262cac upstream. Jiri reported that he could trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in perf_cgroup_switch() using sw-events. This is because sw-events share a cpuctx with multiple PMUs. Use the ->unique_pmu pointer to limit the pmu iteration to unique cpuctx instances. Reported-and-Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-so7wi2zf3jjzrwcutm2mkz0j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ void perf_cgroup_switch(struct task_stru list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) { cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context); + if (cpuctx->unique_pmu != pmu) + continue; /* ensure we process each cpuctx once */ perf_pmu_disable(cpuctx->ctx.pmu); @@ -365,9 +367,10 @@ void perf_cgroup_switch(struct task_stru if (mode & PERF_CGROUP_SWIN) { WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuctx->cgrp); - /* set cgrp before ctxsw in to - * allow event_filter_match() to not - * have to pass task around + /* + * set cgrp before ctxsw in to allow + * event_filter_match() to not have to pass + * task around */ cpuctx->cgrp = perf_cgroup_from_task(task); cpu_ctx_sched_in(cpuctx, EVENT_ALL, task); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.0/perf-clarify-perf_cpu_context-active_pmu-usage-by-renaming.patch queue-3.0/perf-fix-perf_cgroup_switch-for-sw-events.patch -- 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