perf, tracing, kprobes and jump_labels have a gazillion of ways to create
dependency lock chains. Some of those involve nested invocations of
get_online_cpus().
The conversion of the hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem requires to avoid
such nested calls. sys_perf_event_open() protects most of the syscall logic
against cpu hotplug. This causes nested calls and lock inversions versus
ftrace and kprobes in various interesting ways.
It's impossible to move the hotplug locking to the outer end of all call
chains in the involved facilities, so the hotplug protection in
sys_perf_event_open() needs to be solved differently.
Introduce 'pmus_mutex' which protects a perf private online cpumask. This
mutex is taken when the mask is updated in the cpu hotplug callbacks and
can be taken in sys_perf_event_open() to protect the swhash setup/teardown
code and when the final judgement about a valid event has to be made.
[ tglx: Produced changelog and fixed the swhash interaction ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081548.930941109@linutronix.de
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