Small cleanup to how we refcount in find_get_context(), this also allows us to use put_ctx() to free things instead of using kfree(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/perf_event.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -2831,16 +2831,12 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct unclone_ctx(ctx); ++ctx->pin_count; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags); - } - - if (!ctx) { + } else { ctx = alloc_perf_context(pmu, task); err = -ENOMEM; if (!ctx) goto errout; - get_ctx(ctx); - err = 0; mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex); /* @@ -2852,14 +2848,14 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]) err = -EAGAIN; else { + get_ctx(ctx); ++ctx->pin_count; rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx); } mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex); if (unlikely(err)) { - put_task_struct(task); - kfree(ctx); + put_ctx(ctx); if (err == -EAGAIN) goto retry; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/