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[4/9] arm/perf: correctly check for kthreads

Message ID 20190814104131.20190-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
State New
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Series kthread detection cleanup | expand

Commit Message

Mark Rutland Aug. 14, 2019, 10:41 a.m. UTC 
The arm perf_callchain_user() functions looks at current->mm,
apparently to determine whether the thread is a kthread without any
valid user context.

In general, a non-NULL current->mm doesn't imply that current is a
kthread, as kthreads can install an mm via use_mm(), and so it's
preferable to use is_kthread() to determine whether a thread is a
kthread.

For consistency, let's use is_kthread() here.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
index 3b69a76d341e..5c920f2c46a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@  perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *regs
 
 	perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->ARM_pc);
 
-	if (!current->mm)
+	if (is_kthread(current))
 		return;
 
 	tail = (struct frame_tail __user *)regs->ARM_fp - 1;