linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL||RFC 00/11] perf library and regression testing improvements

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:27:15 -0200
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Han Pingtian <phan@...hat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL||RFC 00/11] perf library and regression testing
 improvements

Em Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 12:19:58PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > Arnaldo,
> > Looks like what's wrong is not ps but count:
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > [Switching to Thread 0x7f96967fd6e0 (LWP 5156)]
> > 0x0000000000412b58 in read_counter_aggr (counter=0x7d4820) at builtin-stat.c:206
> > 206			update_stats(&ps->res_stats[i], count[i]);
> > (gdb) print ps
> > $1 = (struct perf_stat *) 0x7d48a0
> > (gdb) print *ps
> > $2 = {res_stats = {{n = 0, mean = 0, M2 = 0}, {n = 0, mean = 0, M2 =
> > 0}, {n = 0, mean = 0, M2 = 0}}}
> > (gdb) print count
> > $3 = (u64 *) 0x12
> > (gdb) print *count
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x12
> > (gdb) print count
> > $4 = (u64 *) 0x12
> 
> Count is:
> 
> u64 *count = counter->counts->aggr.values;

Can you try with this patch?

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 02b2d80..7876b11 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -196,12 +196,14 @@ static inline int nsec_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 static int read_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter)
 {
 	struct perf_stat *ps = counter->priv;
-	u64 *count = counter->counts->aggr.values;
+	u64 *count;
 	int i;
 
 	if (__perf_evsel__read(counter, cpus->nr, threads->nr, scale) < 0)
 		return -1;
 
+	count = counter->counts->aggr.values;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
 		update_stats(&ps->res_stats[i], count[i]);
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index d337761..26962ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -89,8 +89,12 @@ int __perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 {
 	size_t nv = scale ? 3 : 1;
 	int cpu, thread;
-	struct perf_counts_values *aggr = &evsel->counts->aggr, count;
+	struct perf_counts_values *aggr, count;
 
+	if (evsel->counts == NULL && perf_evsel__alloc_counts(evsel, ncpus) < 0)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	aggr = &evsel->counts->aggr;
 	aggr->val = 0;
 
 	for (cpu = 0; cpu < ncpus; cpu++) {
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