The patch below does not apply to the 5.8-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From df3ab3cb7eae63c6eb7c9aebcc196a75d59f65dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:46:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Provide the perf pmu.module Rather than manually implement our own module reference counting for perf pmu events, finally realise that there is a module parameter to struct pmu for this very purpose. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200716094643.31410-1-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit 27e897beec1c59861f15d4d3562c39ad1143620f) Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c index 28bc5f13ae52..056994224c6b 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c @@ -445,8 +445,6 @@ static void i915_pmu_event_destroy(struct perf_event *event) container_of(event->pmu, typeof(*i915), pmu.base); drm_WARN_ON(&i915->drm, event->parent); - - module_put(THIS_MODULE); } static int @@ -538,10 +536,8 @@ static int i915_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (ret) return ret; - if (!event->parent) { - __module_get(THIS_MODULE); + if (!event->parent) event->destroy = i915_pmu_event_destroy; - } return 0; } @@ -1130,6 +1126,7 @@ void i915_pmu_register(struct drm_i915_private *i915) if (!pmu->base.attr_groups) goto err_attr; + pmu->base.module = THIS_MODULE; pmu->base.task_ctx_nr = perf_invalid_context; pmu->base.event_init = i915_pmu_event_init; pmu->base.add = i915_pmu_event_add;