perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD migration race
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:22:49 +0000 (19:22 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:58:01 +0000 (13:58 -0400)
commita19bd3d535bcd02802b50d5cfd7b148fd183e9e7
tree9f9642c647438cfcb7f87f921a60b4f06ba70359
parentc08266ad1aa01aa974f1ac1c960b93f70a0c7915
perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD migration race

[ Upstream commit c7999c6f3fed9e383d3131474588f282ae6d56b9 ]

I ran the perf fuzzer, which triggered some WARN()s which are due to
trying to stop/restart an event on the wrong CPU.

Use the normal IPI pattern to ensure we run the code on the correct CPU.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: bad7192b842c ("perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
kernel/events/core.c