Commit 1908dc91 authored Oct 29, 2020 by Peter Zijlstra

perf: Tweak perf_event_attr::exclusive semantics



Currently perf_event_attr::exclusive can be used to ensure an
event(group) is the sole group scheduled on the PMU. One consequence
is that when you have a pinned event (say the watchdog) you can no
longer have regular exclusive event(group)s.

Inspired by the fact that !pinned events are considered less strict,
allow !pinned,exclusive events to share the PMU with pinned,!exclusive
events.

Pinned,exclusive is still fully exclusive.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029162902.105962225@infradead.org

parent 2714c396

kernel/events/core.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2637,7 +2637,7 @@ static int group_can_go_on(struct perf_event *event,
		* If this group is exclusive and there are already
		* events on the CPU, it can't go on.
		*/
		if (event->attr.exclusive && cpuctx->active_oncpu)
		if (event->attr.exclusive && !list_empty(get_event_list(event)))
		return 0;
		/*
		* Otherwise, try to add it if all previous groups were able

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