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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-03-08 17:56:05 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-21 09:35:29 +0100
commit1dcaac1ce07db672e2cb5b4ef9642990689bb2a1 (patch)
tree6390f9647b7382631ba387342b53a97bb7ba11cb
parentf8519155b4d5224e215203bf0e94a8478a8f8945 (diff)
perf/core: Document some hotplug bits
Document some of the hotplug notifier usage. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 43e35faf576e..de24fbce5277 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9449,10 +9449,29 @@ perf_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
+ /*
+ * This must be done before the CPU comes alive, because the
+ * moment we can run tasks we can encounter (software) events.
+ *
+ * Specifically, someone can have inherited events on kthreadd
+ * or a pre-existing worker thread that gets re-bound.
+ */
perf_event_init_cpu(cpu);
break;
case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+ /*
+ * This must be done before the CPU dies because after that an
+ * active event might want to IPI the CPU and that'll not work
+ * so great for dead CPUs.
+ *
+ * XXX smp_call_function_single() return -ENXIO without a warn
+ * so we could possibly deal with this.
+ *
+ * This is safe against new events arriving because
+ * sys_perf_event_open() serializes against hotplug using
+ * get_online_cpus().
+ */
perf_event_exit_cpu(cpu);
break;
default: