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Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:58:47AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:28:11AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch eliminates all known RCU violations detected
> > > by the RCU  checker (PROVE_RCU). The impact code paths
> > > were all related to cgroup mode monitoring and involved
> > > access a task's cgrp.
> >
> > But were they right? This patch provides no clues.
> >
> I am assuming that is the checker detects something suspicious there is likely
> a problem.
> 
> Take for instance:
>  perf_cgroup_sched_out()->perf_cgroup_from_task() ->task_subsys_state()
> 
> That one fires the checker. I think because we are accessing the css
> state without
> protection.
> 
> The other places are similar.

But perf_cgroup_attach()->perf_cgroup_switch() takes ctx->lock().

Therefore; if you hold ctx->lock, the cgroup is pinned.

And the above sequence very much holds ctx->lock.

Right?

So it looks to me that we should teach perf_cgroup_from_task() about
ctx->lock or something.
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[PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2015-10-17 03:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-17 12:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2015-10-19 10:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-19 11:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2015-10-26 20:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-26 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-17 12:10 +0200

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