linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] various perf fixes

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:44:55 +0100
From:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, vince@...ter.net,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, jolsa@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] various perf fixes

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been hunting perf bugs for the past few weeks. This resulted in this pile
> of patches, that mostly seems to work -- I still get an occasional fail so
> something is still off.
>
> But I've been sitting on this for far too long, so here goes.
>
> (I've not at all tested perf-cgroup)
>
> The code compiles in between patches, but I've not bothered trying to run/test
> any intermediate stage. There's just too many inter-related fail.
>
> Alexander, Stephane, could you guys please have a hard look at this?
>
> Andi, Dmitry, patch 10 should explain the getting stuck in
> perf_install_in_context() forever thing you both have observed.


I've tried to apply this series, but it failed exactly on patch 10.
Among other things I don't have event_function_call() function at all.
I am on the latest Linus tree afd2ff9b7e1b367172f18ba7f693dfb62bdcb2dc
(Jan 10, 4.4). What other patches do I need to apply this?