perf: overflow/perf_count_sw_cpu_clock crashes recent kernels
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823296 The below patch is for -stable only, upstream has a much larger patch that contains the below hunk in commit a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 Vince found that under certain circumstances software event overflows go wrong and deadlock. Avoid trying to delete a timer from the timer callback. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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