From: Frederic Weisbecker commit 5225c45899e872383ca39f5533d28ec63c54b39e upstream. Each histogram entry has a callchain root that stores the callchain samples. However we forgot to initialize the tracking of children hits of these roots, which then got random values on their creation. The root children hits is multiplied by the minimum percentage of hits provided by the user, and the result becomes the minimum hits expected from children branches. If the random value due to the uninitialization is big enough, then this minimum number of hits can be huge and eventually filter every children branches. The end result was invisible callchains. All we need to fix this is to initialize the children hits of the root. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/util/callchain.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static inline void callchain_init(struct INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->children); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->val); + node->children_hit = 0; node->parent = NULL; node->hit = 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/