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From: tip-bot for Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@google.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, robert.richter@amd.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf_events: Fix broken event grouping
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:27:49 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-d14b12d7adbf214f33eb59f800b5c3d5ed9268e8@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100917093009.360420946@chello.nl>

Commit-ID:  d14b12d7adbf214f33eb59f800b5c3d5ed9268e8
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d14b12d7adbf214f33eb59f800b5c3d5ed9268e8
Author:     Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:28:47 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:48:47 +0200

perf_events: Fix broken event grouping

Events were not grouped anymore. The reason was that in
perf_event_open(), the field event->group_leader was
initialized before the function looked up the group_fd
to find the event leader. This patch fixes this by
reordering the code correctly.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.360420946@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   15 +++++++--------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 86f394e..ce95617 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -5550,17 +5550,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	if (event_fd < 0)
 		return event_fd;
 
-	event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, group_leader, NULL, NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(event);
-		goto err_fd;
-	}
-
 	if (group_fd != -1) {
 		group_leader = perf_fget_light(group_fd, &fput_needed);
 		if (IS_ERR(group_leader)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(group_leader);
-			goto err_alloc;
+			goto err_fd;
 		}
 		group_file = group_leader->filp;
 		if (flags & PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT)
@@ -5569,6 +5563,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 			group_leader = NULL;
 	}
 
+	event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, group_leader, NULL, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(event);
+		goto err_fd;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Special case software events and allow them to be part of
 	 * any hardware group.
@@ -5653,7 +5653,6 @@ err_context:
 	put_ctx(ctx);
 err_group_fd:
 	fput_light(group_file, fput_needed);
-err_alloc:
 	free_event(event);
 err_fd:
 	put_unused_fd(event_fd);

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-17 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-17  9:28 [PATCH 0/6] Various perf fixes Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] percpu: {get,put}_cpu_ptr Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-19 15:09   ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-21 14:13   ` [tip:perf/core] percpu: Add {get,put}_cpu_ptr tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf: Avoid RCU vs preemption assumptions Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-21 14:13   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 3/6] perf_events: Fix broken event grouping Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17 11:27   ` tip-bot for Stephane Eranian [this message]
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] perf: Complete software pmu grouping Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17 11:28   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] perf: Fix perf_event_exit_cpu_context() Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17 11:28   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17  9:28 ` [PATCH 6/6] perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuff Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-17 11:29   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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