Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index 349d4d17aa7f..2aa1ad194db2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -2101,8 +2101,8 @@ static int x86_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 
 static void refresh_pce(void *ignored)
 {
-	if (current->mm)
-		load_mm_cr4(current->mm);
+	if (current->active_mm)
+		load_mm_cr4(current->active_mm);
 }
 
 static void x86_pmu_event_mapped(struct perf_event *event)
@@ -2110,6 +2110,18 @@ static void x86_pmu_event_mapped(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (!(event->hw.flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_RDPMC_ALLOWED))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * This function relies on not being called concurrently in two
+	 * tasks in the same mm.  Otherwise one task could observe
+	 * perf_rdpmc_allowed > 1 and return all the way back to
+	 * userspace with CR4.PCE clear while another task is still
+	 * doing on_each_cpu_mask() to propagate CR4.PCE.
+	 *
+	 * For now, this can't happen because all callers hold mmap_sem
+	 * for write.  If this changes, we'll need a different solution.
+	 */
+	lockdep_assert_held_exclusive(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+
 	if (atomic_inc_return(&current->mm->context.perf_rdpmc_allowed) == 1)
 		on_each_cpu_mask(mm_cpumask(current->mm), refresh_pce, NULL, 1);
 }