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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf: do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there is no events in the context
Ingo, Peter can you look into this please.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Do not set task_ctx pointer during sched_in if there is no
> events associated with the context. Otherwise if during task
> execution total number of events in the system will become zero
> perf_event_context_sched_out() will not be called and cpuctx->task_ctx
> will be left with a stale value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 0f85778..68b13ee 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -2172,7 +2172,8 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_in(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
>
> perf_event_sched_in(cpuctx, ctx, task);
>
> - cpuctx->task_ctx = ctx;
> + if (ctx->nr_events)
> + cpuctx->task_ctx = ctx;
>
> perf_pmu_enable(ctx->pmu);
> perf_ctx_unlock(cpuctx, ctx);
> --
> Gleb.
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