linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf, tool: Fix the array pointer to follow event data properly

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:30:11 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org,
	cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, tool: Fix the array pointer to follow event data
 properly

Em Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:21:05PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> Yes, and I haven't heard back since then
> 
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
> > Stephane submitted a similar patch a week ago:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/17/91


Gack, I updated one of my machines and the postfix setup had some issues
with SELinux.

Yeah, I noticed its the same fix Stephane submitted last week and that I
should have already sent Ingo's way.

Ingo, please apply the one from Stephane, next time I process it if you
haven't yet I'll make sure it gets pushed.

- Arnaldo

> > David
> >
> >
> > On 3/24/12 8:19 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >>
> >> Currently we dont update the 'array' pointer properly after
> >> processing the RAW data. This way perf might report wrong data
> >> for branch stack if it is used along with tracepoint sample.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure tracepoint could be connected with branch stack,
> >> but I think the array pointer should have correct value after
> >> each sample processing.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa<jolsa@...hat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c |    1 +
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> >> index d9da62a..56a96896 100644
> >> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> >> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> >> @@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event
> >> *event, u64 type,
> >>                        return -EFAULT;
> >>
> >>                data->raw_data = (void *) pdata;
> >> +               array = (u64 *)(((char *)array) + data->raw_size +
> >> sizeof(u32));
> >>        }
> >>
> >>        if (type&  PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK) {
> >
> >
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