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authorPeter Zijlstra2009-05-25 14:45:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2009-05-25 14:55:01 +0200
commit6ab423e0eaca827fbd201ca4ae7d4f8573a366b2 (patch)
tree072d227934bf213adf5c0dd022369e14f273dc48 /kernel/perf_counter.c
parentperf_counter: Make pctrl() affect inherited counters too (diff)
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perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() path
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely). Signed-off-by: Peter 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: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 217dbcce2ebd..7a7a144870ef 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -3434,18 +3434,23 @@ again:
/*
* Initialize the perf_counter context in task_struct
*/
-void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
+int perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
{
struct perf_counter_context *child_ctx, *parent_ctx;
struct perf_counter *counter;
struct task_struct *parent = current;
int inherited_all = 1;
+ int ret = 0;
child->perf_counter_ctxp = NULL;
mutex_init(&child->perf_counter_mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->perf_counter_list);
+ parent_ctx = parent->perf_counter_ctxp;
+ if (likely(!parent_ctx || !parent_ctx->nr_counters))
+ return 0;
+
/*
* This is executed from the parent task context, so inherit
* counters that have been marked for cloning.
@@ -3454,11 +3459,7 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
child_ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(struct perf_counter_context), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!child_ctx)
- return;
-
- parent_ctx = parent->perf_counter_ctxp;
- if (likely(!parent_ctx || !parent_ctx->nr_counters))
- return;
+ return -ENOMEM;
__perf_counter_init_context(child_ctx, child);
child->perf_counter_ctxp = child_ctx;
@@ -3482,8 +3483,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
continue;
}
- if (inherit_group(counter, parent,
- parent_ctx, child, child_ctx)) {
+ ret = inherit_group(counter, parent, parent_ctx,
+ child, child_ctx);
+ if (ret) {
inherited_all = 0;
break;
}
@@ -3505,6 +3507,8 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child)
}
mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
+
+ return ret;
}
static void __cpuinit perf_counter_init_cpu(int cpu)