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Revision befb1b3c2703897c5b8ffb0044dc5d0e5f27c5d7 authored by Reinette Chatre on 19 September 2018, 17:29:06 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 28 September 2018, 20:44:53 UTC 
perf/core: Add sanity check to deal with pinned event failure
 
It is possible that a failure can occur during the scheduling of a
pinned event. The initial portion of perf_event_read_local() contains
the various error checks an event should pass before it can be
considered valid. Ensure that the potential scheduling failure
of a pinned event is checked for and have a credible error.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6486385d1f30336e9973b24c8c65f5079543d3d3.1537377064.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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percpu-rw-semaphore.txt 
====================
Percpu rw semaphores
====================

Percpu rw semaphores is a new read-write semaphore design that is
optimized for locking for reading.

The problem with traditional read-write semaphores is that when multiple
cores take the lock for reading, the cache line containing the semaphore
is bouncing between L1 caches of the cores, causing performance
degradation.

Locking for reading is very fast, it uses RCU and it avoids any atomic
instruction in the lock and unlock path. On the other hand, locking for
writing is very expensive, it calls synchronize_rcu() that can take
hundreds of milliseconds.

The lock is declared with "struct percpu_rw_semaphore" type.
The lock is initialized percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success and
-ENOMEM on allocation failure.
The lock must be freed with percpu_free_rwsem to avoid memory leak.

The lock is locked for read with percpu_down_read, percpu_up_read and
for write with percpu_down_write, percpu_up_write.

The idea of using RCU for optimized rw-lock was introduced by
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>.
The code was written by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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