From 6ab423e0eaca827fbd201ca4ae7d4f8573a366b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:45:27 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() path Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: John Kacur LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_counter.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c') diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index 217dbcce2eb..7a7a144870e 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -3434,18 +3434,23 @@ again: /* * Initialize the perf_counter context in task_struct */ -void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) +int perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) { struct perf_counter_context *child_ctx, *parent_ctx; struct perf_counter *counter; struct task_struct *parent = current; int inherited_all = 1; + int ret = 0; child->perf_counter_ctxp = NULL; mutex_init(&child->perf_counter_mutex); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->perf_counter_list); + parent_ctx = parent->perf_counter_ctxp; + if (likely(!parent_ctx || !parent_ctx->nr_counters)) + return 0; + /* * This is executed from the parent task context, so inherit * counters that have been marked for cloning. @@ -3454,11 +3459,7 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) child_ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(struct perf_counter_context), GFP_KERNEL); if (!child_ctx) - return; - - parent_ctx = parent->perf_counter_ctxp; - if (likely(!parent_ctx || !parent_ctx->nr_counters)) - return; + return -ENOMEM; __perf_counter_init_context(child_ctx, child); child->perf_counter_ctxp = child_ctx; @@ -3482,8 +3483,9 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) continue; } - if (inherit_group(counter, parent, - parent_ctx, child, child_ctx)) { + ret = inherit_group(counter, parent, parent_ctx, + child, child_ctx); + if (ret) { inherited_all = 0; break; } @@ -3505,6 +3507,8 @@ void perf_counter_init_task(struct task_struct *child) } mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex); + + return ret; } static void __cpuinit perf_counter_init_cpu(int cpu) -- cgit v1.2.3