From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:17:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf: Clean up 'ctx' reference counting X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9137fb28ac74d05eb66d1d8e6778eaa14e6fed43;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git perf: Clean up 'ctx' reference counting Small cleanup to how we refcount in find_get_context(), this also allows us to use put_ctx() to free things instead of using kfree(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110409192141.719340481@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 4d9a1f014286..d665ac4242f2 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -2835,16 +2835,12 @@ retry: unclone_ctx(ctx); ++ctx->pin_count; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags); - } - - if (!ctx) { + } else { ctx = alloc_perf_context(pmu, task); err = -ENOMEM; if (!ctx) goto errout; - get_ctx(ctx); - err = 0; mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex); /* @@ -2856,14 +2852,14 @@ retry: else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]) err = -EAGAIN; else { + get_ctx(ctx); ++ctx->pin_count; rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx); } mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex); if (unlikely(err)) { - put_task_struct(task); - kfree(ctx); + put_ctx(ctx); if (err == -EAGAIN) goto retry;