Merge 3.6-rc6 into tty-next

This pulls in the fixes in 3.6-rc6

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index bb38c4d3ee12..9a7b487c6fe2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -453,7 +453,16 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *att
         int old_type = bp->attr.bp_type;
         int err = 0;
 
-        perf_event_disable(bp);
+        /*
+         * modify_user_hw_breakpoint can be invoked with IRQs disabled and hence it
+         * will not be possible to raise IPIs that invoke __perf_event_disable.
+         * So call the function directly after making sure we are targeting the
+         * current task.
+         */
+        if (irqs_disabled() && bp->ctx && bp->ctx->task == current)
+                __perf_event_disable(bp);
+        else
+                perf_event_disable(bp);
 
         bp->attr.bp_addr = attr->bp_addr;
         bp->attr.bp_type = attr->bp_type;