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authorMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>2010-09-13 13:01:20 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-15 10:44:00 +0200
commit38a81da2205f94e8a2a834b51a6b99c91fc7c2e8 (patch)
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parent2ebd4ffb6d0cb877787b1e42be8485820158857e (diff)
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perf events: Clean up pid passing
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/hw_breakpoint.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/hw_breakpoint.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 6122f02cfedf..3b714e839c10 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -433,8 +433,7 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
struct task_struct *tsk)
{
- return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk),
- triggered);
+ return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk, triggered);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);
@@ -516,7 +515,7 @@ register_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
pevent = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_events, cpu);
- bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, -1, triggered);
+ bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, NULL, triggered);
*pevent = bp;