From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:26:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perf_counter: fix uninitialized usage of event_list X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01ef09d9ffb5ce9f8d62d1e5206da3d5ca612acc;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git perf_counter: fix uninitialized usage of event_list Impact: fix boot crash When doing the generic context switch event I ran into some early boot hangs, which were caused by inf func recursion (event, fault, event, fault). I eventually tracked it down to event_list not being initialized at the time of the first event. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.195392657@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 219748d00262..ca226a91abee 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ extern struct cred init_cred; # define INIT_PERF_COUNTERS(tsk) \ .perf_counter_ctx.counter_list = \ LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.counter_list), \ + .perf_counter_ctx.event_list = \ + LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.event_list), \ .perf_counter_ctx.lock = \ __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.lock), #else diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index b39456ad74a1..4c4e9eb37ab0 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ static void perf_swcounter_ctx_event(struct perf_counter_context *ctx, { struct perf_counter *counter; - if (list_empty(&ctx->event_list)) + if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING || list_empty(&ctx->event_list)) return; rcu_read_lock();