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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 10:01:56 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, paulus@...ba.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
	namhyung@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, dsahern@...il.com,
	daniel@...earbox.net, brendan.d.gregg@...il.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
CC:	lizefan@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pi3orama@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 02/37] perf tools: Set vmlinux_path__nr_entries
 to 0 in vmlinux_path__exit

On 5/17/15 3:56 AM, Wang Nan wrote:
> Original vmlinux_path__exit() doesn't revert vmlinux_path__nr_entries
> to its original state. After the while loop vmlinux_path__nr_entries
> becomes -1 instead of 0. This makes a problem that, if runs twice,
> during the second run vmlinux_path__init() will set vmlinux_path[-1]
> to strdup("vmlinux"), corrupts random memory.
>
> This patch reset vmlinux_path__nr_entries to 0 after the while loop.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

no need to repost. Arnaldo picked it up already.
When you repost it many times, it gets very confusing.
If patch is not moving, rather ping it in original thread.
Same with patches 3,4,5.

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