linux-kernel - Re: perf mem report segfaulting

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Message-ID: <CAM9d7chOLyJ+z7tmpygufsEQvY+OFXPL_Dwb3UZ5eAMK+C56AA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:32:47 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perf mem report segfaulting

Hi Arnaldo,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> Em Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:19:57AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 02:04:14PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >     While trying to test my tmp.perf/ui_browser.horiz_scroll branch
>> > with 'perf mem report' to allow that kind of browsing on the TUI, as of
>> > now it works only on --stdio mode, using the right/left arrow keys, I
>> > noticed this in acme/perf/core (but I saw it too in many previous
>> > revisions, trying to bisect it):
>> >
>> > [root@zoo ~]# perf mem record -a
>> > ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.072 MB perf.data (647 samples) ]
>> >
>> > [root@zoo ~]# perf mem report
>> > perf: Segmentation fault
>> > -------- backtrace --------
>> > perf[0x52a08b]
>> > /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x34960)[0x7f8726860960]
>> > perf(addr_map_symbol__inc_samples+0xbb)[0x47abfb]
>> > perf[0x42e93f]
>> > perf(hist_entry_iter__add+0x102)[0x4d9632]
>> > perf[0x42e7ba]
>> > perf[0x4bc4c3]
>> > perf[0x4bc9c1]
>> > perf[0x4bf6b9]
>> > perf(perf_session__process_events+0x390)[0x4be1b0]
>> > perf(cmd_report+0x1038)[0x42faf8]
>> > perf(cmd_mem+0x3ec)[0x44c69c]
>> > perf[0x479113]
>> > perf(main+0x60a)[0x420a5a]
>> > /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f872684bfe0]
>> > perf[0x420b79]
>> > [0x0]
>> > [root@zoo ~]# perf evlist
>> > cpu/mem-loads/pp
>> > cpu/mem-stores/pp
>> > [root@zoo ~]#
>> >
>> > Have you noticed this? No time to look at this now :-\
>>
>> cannot reproduce it on your perf/core.. did you navigate
>> to anything specific to trigger it?
>
> Nope, all I did is in the report, i.e. it segfaults straight away, right
> after running 'perf mem report'.
>
> Trying again, with what is in v4.2.0, i.e. upstream Linus, freshly built
> (the tooling part, the kernel is a 4.2.0-rc one):
>
> [root@zoo ~]# perf mem record -a
> ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.260 MB perf.data (953 samples) ]
>
> [root@zoo ~]# perf mem report
> perf: Segmentation fault
> -------- backtrace --------
> perf[0x510c6b]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x34960)[0x7f27d6ed9960]
> perf(addr_map_symbol__inc_samples+0xbb)[0x477ebb]
> perf[0x42d017]
> perf(hist_entry_iter__add+0x102)[0x4d4072]
> perf[0x42ceda]
> perf[0x4b7713]
> perf[0x4b7bd1]
> perf[0x4ba899]
> perf(perf_session__process_events+0x390)[0x4b9390]
> perf(cmd_report+0xfc9)[0x42e199]
> perf(cmd_mem+0x3ec)[0x44aa6c]
> perf[0x4767c3]
> perf(main+0x60a)[0x41f19a]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f27d6ec4fe0]
> perf[0x41f2b9]
> [0x0]
> [root@zoo ~]# perf --version
> perf version 4.2.g64291f
> [root@zoo ~]# uname -a
> Linux zoo 4.2.0-rc5+ #1 SMP Tue Aug 4 16:55:11 BRT 2015 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root@zoo ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
> [root@zoo ~]#

I also cannot reproduce it on my system with current acme/perf/core.
The kernel version is 4.1.4 tho.

  $ uname -a
  Linux danjae 4.1.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 3 21:30:37 UTC 2015
x86_64 GNU/Linux

  $ perf --version
  perf version 4.2.rc7.g2c07144

Thanks,
Namhyung
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