linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] perf/urgent fixes

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Message-ID: <20150904090153.GB17456@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:01:54 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Raphael Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] perf/urgent fixes


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> 	Please consider pulling,
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> The following changes since commit 5b923564ccf43f92969c9e0fd199c8c5db657039:
> 
>   Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent (2015-09-02 09:22:53 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-urgent-for-mingo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 53ff6bc37be449f546158a39c528d7814dfb15a1:
> 
>   perf tools: Fix use of wrong event when processing exit events (2015-09-02 17:46:26 -0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> perf/urgent fixes:
> 
> - In some cases where perf_event.fork.{pid,tid} should be used we were instead
>   using perf_event.comm.{pid,tid}, which is not a problem for for the 'pid'
>   case, that sits in the same place in these union_perf_event members, but
>   comm.tid sits where fork.ppid is, oops.
> 
>   These cases were considered as (potentially) problematic:
> 
>    - 'perf script' with !sample_id_all, i.e. only non old kernels without
>       perf_event_attr.sample_id_all.
> 
>    - intel_pt could be affected when decoding without timestamps, as the exit
>      event is only used to flush out data which anyway gets flushed at the
>      end of the session.
> 
>    - intel_bts also uses the exit event to flush data which would probably not
>      cause errors as it would get flushed at the end of the session instead.
> 
>   Fix it. (Adrian Hunter)
> 
> - Due to relaxing the compiler checks for bison generated files, we missed
>   updating one parse_events_add_pmu() caller when this function had its
>   prototype changed, fix it. (Jiri Olsa)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Adrian Hunter (1):
>       perf tools: Fix use of wrong event when processing exit events
> 
> Jiri Olsa (1):
>       perf tools: Fix parse_events_add_pmu caller
> 
>  tools/perf/builtin-script.c    | 4 ++--
>  tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c    | 2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c     | 2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Arnaldo!

	Ingo
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