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SubjectRe: [PATCH,RFC] perf: panic due to inclied cpu context task_ctx value
On 03/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 03/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
> > index c75925c..e9e4e35 100644
> > --- a/kernel/perf_event.c
> > +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
> > @@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,
> > if (!is_software_event(event))
> > cpuctx->active_oncpu--;
> > ctx->nr_active--;
> > + if (!ctx->nr_active && cpuctx->task_ctx == ctx)
> > + cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL;
>
> If we clear cpuctx->task_ctx, we should also clear ctx->is_active.
>
> Otherwise I can't see any problem, but I do not understand this code
> enough.

but probably we also need update_context_time().

Oleg.



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