Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] bpf: Implement function bpf_perf_event_read() that get the selected hardware PMU conuter

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 06:15:23 EST


On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 12:04:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 08:58:15AM +0000, Kaixu Xia wrote:

> > + event->ctx->task != current)

Strictly speaking we should hold rcu_read_lock around dereferencing
event->ctx (or have IRQs disabled -- although I know Paul doesn't like
us relying on that).


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