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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-01-26 12:15:37 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-01-29 08:35:29 +0100
commit07c4a776135ea6d808ea19aabeb51de6b8648402 (patch)
tree27f3b4abc0ab0f77cca1040890723707f222f382 /kernel/events
parenta0733e695b83a9c31f779e41dcaec8ef924716b5 (diff)
downloadlinux-07c4a776135ea6d808ea19aabeb51de6b8648402.tar.bz2
perf: Update locking order
Update the locking order to note that ctx::lock nests inside of child_mutex, as per: perf_ioctl(): ctx::mutex -> perf_event_for_each(): event::child_mutex -> _perf_event_enable(): ctx::lock Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 024adf0e34eb..d345964c2bd6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1086,8 +1086,8 @@ static void put_ctx(struct perf_event_context *ctx)
* Lock order:
* task_struct::perf_event_mutex
* perf_event_context::mutex
- * perf_event_context::lock
* perf_event::child_mutex;
+ * perf_event_context::lock
* perf_event::mmap_mutex
* mmap_sem
*/