linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] perf: Resurrect flat callchains

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Date:	Thu,  8 Jul 2010 06:36:50 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"2.6.31.x-2.6.34.x" <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Resurrect flat callchains

Initialize the callchain radix tree root correctly.

When we walk through the parents, we must stop after the root, but
since it wasn't well initialized, its parent pointer was random.

Also the number of hits was random because uninitialized, hence it
was part of the callchain while the root doesn't contain anything.

This fixes segfaults and percentages followed by empty callchains
while running:

	perf report -g flat

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: 2.6.31.x-2.6.34.x <stable@...nel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/callchain.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
index 1ca73e4..22dbaec 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ static inline void callchain_init(struct callchain_node *node)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->brothers);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->children);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->val);
+
+	node->parent = NULL;
+	node->hit = 0;
 }
 
 static inline u64 cumul_hits(struct callchain_node *node)
-- 
1.6.2.3

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