linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf: Rewrite core context handling

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:03:42 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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        santosh.shukla@....com, Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: Rewrite core context handling

On 14-Oct-22 3:26 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> On 13-Oct-22 4:29 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:37:23PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>>
>>>> -	refcount_t			refcount;
>>>> +	refcount_t			refcount; /* event <-> ctx */
>>>
>>> Ok. We need to remove all those // XXX get/put_ctx() from code
>>> which we added to make refcount a pmu_ctx <-> ctx.
>>
>> Them already gone :-) I've not yet fixed up the typoes, but current
>> version should be here:
>>
>>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=perf/core
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> I've been running perf-fuzzer on Xeon machine since yesterday and I don't see any
> issue. Will do the same on my AMD machine as well over the weekend.

Only one WARN_ON() hit. Otherwise all good.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8d91528b-e830-6ad0-8a92-621ce9f944ca@amd.com

Thanks,
Ravi