From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752108AbbJQKBA (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:01:00 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50313 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354AbbJQKA7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:00:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:00:54 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Stephane Eranian Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com, edumazet@google.com, acme@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix RCU issues with cgroup monitoring mode Message-ID: <20151017100054.GF3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20151017012811.GA18581@thinkpad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151017012811.GA18581@thinkpad> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:28:11AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > static int __perf_cgroup_move(void *info) > { > struct task_struct *task = info; > + rcu_read_lock(); > perf_cgroup_switch(task, PERF_CGROUP_SWOUT | PERF_CGROUP_SWIN); > + rcu_read_unlock(); > return 0; > } On second thought, how can this be right? Surely the cgroup system has cgroups stabilized over calling ->attach() ?