I got a report that a task is stuck in perf_event_exit_task() waiting
for global_ctx_data_rwsem. On large systems with lots threads, it'd
have performance issues when it grabs the lock to iterate all threads
in the system to allocate the context data.
And it'd block task exit path which is problematic especially under
memory pressure.
perf_event_open
perf_event_alloc
attach_perf_ctx_data
attach_global_ctx_data
percpu_down_write (global_ctx_data_rwsem)
for_each_process_thread
alloc_task_ctx_data
do_exit
perf_event_exit_task
percpu_down_read (global_ctx_data_rwsem)
It should not hold the global_ctx_data_rwsem on the exit path. Let's
skip allocation for exiting tasks and free the data carefully.
Reported-by: Rosalie Fang <rosaliefang@google.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112165157.1919624-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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