On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:27 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the .38-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <[email protected]>.

Sorry for the delay, fell ill.

> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> 
> From 38b435b16c36b0d863efcf3f07b34a6fac9873fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:37:10 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix tear-down of inherited group events
> 
> When destroying inherited events, we need to destroy groups too,
> otherwise the event iteration in perf_event_exit_task_context() will
> miss group siblings and we leak events with all the consequences.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]> # .35+
> LKML-Reference: <1300196470.2203.61.camel@twins>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> 

---
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -6115,17 +6115,20 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event
                         struct perf_event_context *child_ctx,
                         struct task_struct *child)
 {
-       struct perf_event *parent_event;
+       if (child_event->parent) {
+               raw_spin_lock_irq(&child_ctx->lock);
+               perf_group_detach(child_event);
+               raw_spin_unlock_irq(&child_ctx->lock);
+       }
 
        perf_event_remove_from_context(child_event);
 
-       parent_event = child_event->parent;
        /*
-        * It can happen that parent exits first, and has events
+        * It can happen that the parent exits first, and has events
         * that are still around due to the child reference. These
-        * events need to be zapped - but otherwise linger.
+        * events need to be zapped.
         */
-       if (parent_event) {
+       if (child_event->parent) {
                sync_child_event(child_event, child);
                free_event(child_event);
        }


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