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perf/core: Try to allocate task_ctx_data quickly
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:32:20 +0000 (14:32 -0800)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:40:21 +0000 (16:40 +0100)
commitbec2ee2390c95ed0c44494340464e69e79802e4a
treefdb7001b7fc00b57d4d74a4e75db0f04152bd90c
parent28c75fbfec8f024db1278194918e5f6eda4c570f
perf/core: Try to allocate task_ctx_data quickly

The attach_global_ctx_data() has O(N^2) algorithm to allocate the
context data for each thread.  This caused perfomance problems on large
systems with O(100k) threads.

Because kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) can go sleep it cannot be called under the
RCU lock.  So let's try with GFP_NOWAIT first so that it can proceed in
normal cases.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260211223222.3119790-3-namhyung@kernel.org
kernel/events/core.c