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Commit 0c7296ca authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/core: Fix ctx::mutex deadlock



Lockdep noticed the following 3-way lockup scenario:

	sys_perf_event_open()
	  perf_event_alloc()
	    perf_try_init_event()
 #0	      ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(1)
	      perf_swevent_init()
		swevent_hlist_get()
 #1		  mutex_lock(&pmus_lock)

	perf_event_init_cpu()
 #1	  mutex_lock(&pmus_lock)
 #2	  mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex)

	sys_perf_event_open()
	  mutex_lock_double()
 #2	   mutex_lock()
 #0	   mutex_lock_nested()

And while we need that perf_event_ctx_lock_nested() for HW PMUs such
that they can iterate the sibling list, trying to match it to the
available counters, the software PMUs need do no such thing. Exclude
them.

In particular the swevent triggers the above invertion, while the
tpevent PMU triggers a more elaborate one through their event_mutex.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 43fa87f7
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