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Commit efe951d3 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/x86: Fix perf,x86,cpuhp deadlock



More lockdep gifts, a 5-way lockup race:

	perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
	  perf_event_alloc()
	    perf_try_init_event()
	      x86_pmu_event_init()
		__x86_pmu_event_init()
		  x86_reserve_hardware()
 #0		    mutex_lock(&pmc_reserve_mutex);
		    reserve_ds_buffer()
 #1		      get_online_cpus()

	perf_event_release_kernel()
	  _free_event()
	    hw_perf_event_destroy()
	      x86_release_hardware()
 #0		mutex_lock(&pmc_reserve_mutex)
		release_ds_buffer()
 #1		  get_online_cpus()

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

	sys_perf_event_open()
	  mutex_lock_double()
 #3	    mutex_lock(ctx->mutex)
 #4	    mutex_lock_nested(ctx->mutex, 1);

	perf_try_init_event()
 #4	  mutex_lock_nested(ctx->mutex, 1)
	  x86_pmu_event_init()
	    intel_pmu_hw_config()
	      x86_add_exclusive()
 #0		mutex_lock(&pmc_reserve_mutex)

Fix it by using ordering constructs instead of locking.

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 0c7296ca
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