linux/tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo b91fc39f4a perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock
In addition to using refcounts for the struct thread lifetime
management, we need to protect access to machine->threads from
concurrent access.

That happens in 'perf top', where a thread processes events, inserting
and deleting entries from that rb_tree while another thread decays
hist_entries, that end up dropping references and ultimately deleting
threads from the rb_tree and releasing its resources when no further
hist_entry (or other data structures, like in 'perf sched') references
it.

So the rule is the same for refcounts + protected trees in the kernel,
get the tree lock, find object, bump the refcount, drop the tree lock,
return, use object, drop the refcount if no more use of it is needed,
keep it if storing it in some other data structure, drop when releasing
that data structure.

I.e. pair "t = machine__find(new)_thread()" with a "thread__put(t)", and
"perf_event__preprocess_sample(&al)" with "addr_location__put(&al)".

The addr_location__put() one is because as we return references to
several data structures, we may end up adding more reference counting
for the other data structures and then we'll drop it at
addr_location__put() time.

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bs9rt4n0jw3hi9f3zxyy3xln@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-05-08 16:19:27 -03:00
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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build tools build: Add feature check for lzma library 2015-03-21 14:53:39 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv hv: hypervvssd: call endmntent before call setmntent again 2015-03-25 11:53:54 +01:00
iio tools: iio: generic_buffer: Fix generic scale extraction 2015-03-28 11:01:49 +00:00
include tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib perf/core improvements and fixes: 2015-05-06 04:42:12 +02:00
net tools: bpf_asm: cleanup vlan extension related token 2015-03-24 21:21:41 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf machine: Protect the machine->threads with a rwlock 2015-05-08 16:19:27 -03:00
power More power management and ACPI updates for v4.1-rc1 2015-04-26 13:56:35 -07:00
scripts
testing selftests/powerpc: Fix the pmu install rule 2015-05-01 13:00:26 +10:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: silence 'set but not used' warnings 2015-02-28 13:52:48 +08:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
Makefile tools build: Fix Makefile(s) to properly invoke tools build 2015-04-29 10:37:46 -03:00