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Peter Zijlstra committed 547e9fd7d32
perf: Annotate cpuctx->ctx.mutex to avoid a lockdep splat Lockdep spotted: loop_1b_instruc/1899 is trying to acquire lock: (event_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e1908>] perf_trace_init+0x3b/0x2f7 but task is already holding lock: (&ctx->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810eb45b>] perf_event_init_context+0xc0/0x218 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #3 (&ctx->mutex){+.+.+.}: -> #2 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}: -> #1 (module_mutex){+.+...}: -> #0 (event_mutex){+.+.+.}: But because the deadlock would be cpuhotplug (cpu-event) vs fork (task-event) it cannot, in fact, happen. We can annotate this by giving the perf_event_context used for the cpuctx a different lock class from those used by tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>