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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-05-20 14:21:55 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-05-21 09:37:58 (GMT)
commitadb8e118f288dc4c569ac9a89010b81a4745fbf0 (patch)
tree40f2bbbe7c59fb4b4a44120fa9cc79822b68e545 /kernel
parent0e2e63dd608bf5844ffae7bf7d860de18a62724c (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-adb8e118f288dc4c569ac9a89010b81a4745fbf0.tar.xz
perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so comparing against it for determining the written data size doesn't really do any good. Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare against that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 7a93252..1531e0b 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -3056,8 +3056,8 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
handle->offset = offset;
handle->head = head;
- if (head - tail > data->watermark)
- local_inc(&data->wakeup);
+ if (head - local_read(&data->wakeup) > data->watermark)
+ local_add(data->watermark, &data->wakeup);
if (have_lost) {
lost_event.header.type = PERF_RECORD_LOST;