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Peter Zijlstra committed 642c2d671ce
perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock Dmitry reported a fairly silly recursive lock deadlock for PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD, fix this by explicitly doing the inactive part of __perf_event_period() instead of calling that function. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Fixes: c7999c6f3fed ("perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD migration race") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151130115615.GJ17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>