On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 12:01 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection:

...

> This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical section to
> perf_event_comm().
> 
> Reported-by: Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gu...@br.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>

> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index b0cd865..8db9551 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -4593,6 +4593,7 @@ void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task)
>       struct perf_event_context *ctx;
>       int ctxn;
>  
> +     rcu_read_lock();
>       for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) {
>               ctx = task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn];
>               if (!ctx)
> @@ -4600,6 +4601,7 @@ void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *task)
>  
>               perf_event_enable_on_exec(ctx);
>       }
> +     rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>       if (!atomic_read(&nr_comm_events))
>               return;
> 


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