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Subject[040/102] perf: Fix software event overflow
3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

The below patch is for -stable only, upstream has a much larger patch
that contains the below hunk in commit a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233

Vince found that under certain circumstances software event overflows
go wrong and deadlock. Avoid trying to delete a timer from the timer
callback.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/events/core.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5016,11 +5016,8 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct
if (events && atomic_dec_and_test(&event->event_limit)) {
ret = 1;
event->pending_kill = POLL_HUP;
- if (nmi) {
- event->pending_disable = 1;
- irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
- } else
- perf_event_disable(event);
+ event->pending_disable = 1;
+ irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
}

if (event->overflow_handler)



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