[RFC][PATCH 2/9] perf: Clean up ctx reference counting

[Peter Zijlstra]

Small cleanup to how we refcount in find_get_context(), this also
allows us to use put_ctx() to free things instead of using kfree().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2831,16 +2831,12 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct
 		unclone_ctx(ctx);
 		++ctx->pin_count;
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
-	}
-
-	if (!ctx) {
+	} else {
 		ctx = alloc_perf_context(pmu, task);
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		if (!ctx)
 			goto errout;
 
-		get_ctx(ctx);
-
 		err = 0;
 		mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
 		/*
@@ -2852,14 +2848,14 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct
 		else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])
 			err = -EAGAIN;
 		else {
+			get_ctx(ctx);
 			++ctx->pin_count;
 			rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx);
 		}
 		mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
 
 		if (unlikely(err)) {
-			put_task_struct(task);
-			kfree(ctx);
+			put_ctx(ctx);
 
 			if (err == -EAGAIN)
 				goto retry;


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