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Paul Mackerras 25346b93ca perf_counter: Provide functions for locking and pinning the context for a task
This abstracts out the code for locking the context associated
with a task.  Because the context might get transferred from
one task to another concurrently, we have to check after
locking the context that it is still the right context for the
task and retry if not.  This was open-coded in
find_get_context() and perf_counter_init_task().

This adds a further function for pinning the context for a
task, i.e. marking it so it can't be transferred to another
task.  This adds a 'pin_count' field to struct
perf_counter_context to indicate that a context is pinned,
instead of the previous method of setting the parent_gen count
to all 1s.  Pinning the context with a pin_count is easier to
undo and doesn't require saving the parent_gen value.  This
also adds a perf_unpin_context() to undo the effect of
perf_pin_task_context() and changes perf_counter_init_task to
use it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.34748.755674.596386@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01 10:04:05 +02:00
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acpi Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel 2009-04-28 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-generic asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macro 2009-05-18 08:34:08 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/i915: allocate large pointer arrays with vmalloc 2009-05-19 10:07:14 -07:00
keys
linux perf_counter: Provide functions for locking and pinning the context for a task 2009-06-01 10:04:05 +02:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11381): ivtv/cx18: remove VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING debug support. 2009-04-06 21:44:28 -03:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-05-05 08:26:10 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fc-transport: Close state transition-window during rport deletion. 2009-05-15 12:16:46 -04:00
sound ALSA: Release v1.0.20 2009-05-06 12:32:26 +02:00
trace tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
video include/video/cyblafb.h: remove it, it's unused 2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00
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