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Commit 856d56b9 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_counter: Fix counter inheritance



Srivatsa Vaddagiri reported that a Java workload triggers this
warning in kernel/exit.c:

   WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&tsk->perf_counter_ctx.counter_list));

Add the inherited counter propagation on self-detach, this could
cause counter leaks and incomplete stats in threaded code like
the below:

  #include <pthread.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

  void *thread(void *arg)
  {
          sleep(5);
          return NULL;
  }

  void main(void)
  {
          pthread_t thr;
          pthread_create(&thr, NULL, thread, NULL);
  }

Reported-by: default avatarSrivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 8bc20959
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