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Peter Zijlstra committed 279b5165ffa
perf/core: Remove confusing comment and move put_ctx() Since commit: 321027c1fe77 ("perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race") ... the code looks like (assuming move_group==1): gctx = __perf_event_ctx_lock_double(group_leader, ctx); perf_remove_from_context(group_leader, 0); list_for_each_entry(sibling, &group_leader->sibling_list, group_entry) { perf_remove_from_context(sibling, 0); put_ctx(gctx); } /* ... */ /* misleading comment about how this is the last reference */ put_ctx(gctx); perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx); What that 'last' put_ctx() does is drop @group_leader's reference on gctx after having dropped all its potential sibling references. But the thing is that __perf_event_ctx_lock_double() returns with a reference _and_ a held lock, and perf_event_ctx_unlock() unlocks that lock and drops that reference. Therefore that put_ctx() cannot be the 'last' of anything, nor is there an unbalance in puts. To reduce confusion, remove the comment and place the put_ctx() next to the remove_from_context() call. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>