From fadfe7be6e50de7f03913833b33c56cd8fb66bac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 14:33:02 +0200 Subject: perf: Add queued work to remove orphaned child events In cases when the owner task exits before the workload and the workload made some forks, all the events stay in until the last workload process exits. Thats' because each child event holds parent reference. We want to release all children events once the parent is gone, because at that time there's no process to read them anyway, so they're just eating resources. This removal races with process exit, which removes all events and fork, which clone events. To be clear of those two, adding work queue to remove orphaned child for context in case such event is detected. Using delayed work queue (with delay == 1), because we queue this work under perf scheduler callbacks. Normal work queue tries to wake up the queue process, which deadlocks on rq->lock in this place. Also preventing clones from abandoned parent event. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406896382-18404-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 707617a8c0f..ef5b62bdb10 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct perf_guest_info_callbacks { #include #include #include +#include #include struct perf_callchain_entry { @@ -507,6 +508,9 @@ struct perf_event_context { int nr_cgroups; /* cgroup evts */ int nr_branch_stack; /* branch_stack evt */ struct rcu_head rcu_head; + + struct delayed_work orphans_remove; + bool orphans_remove_sched; }; /* -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2