[PATCH 05/15] perf: optimize perf_event_comm_ctx()

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

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Remove a rcu_read_{,un}lock() pair and a few conditionals.

We can remove the rcu_read_lock() by increasing the scope of one in
the calling function.

We can do away with the system_state check if the machine still boots
after this patch (seems to be the case).

We can do away with the list_empty() check because the bare
list_for_each_entry_rcu() reduces to that now that we've removed
everything else.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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 kernel/perf_event.c |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -3374,15 +3374,10 @@ static void perf_event_comm_ctx(struct p
 {
 	struct perf_event *event;
 
-	if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING || list_empty(&ctx->event_list))
-		return;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
 		if (perf_event_comm_match(event))
 			perf_event_comm_output(event, comm_event);
 	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 static void perf_event_comm_event(struct perf_comm_event *comm_event)
@@ -3401,11 +3396,11 @@ static void perf_event_comm_event(struct
 
 	comm_event->event_id.header.size = sizeof(comm_event->event_id) + size;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	cpuctx = &get_cpu_var(perf_cpu_context);
 	perf_event_comm_ctx(&cpuctx->ctx, comm_event);
 	put_cpu_var(perf_cpu_context);
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
 	/*
 	 * doesn't really matter which of the child contexts the
 	 * events ends up in.

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