linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 03/15] perf, tools, stat: Fix saved values rbtree lookup

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Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:35:13 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 03/15] perf, tools, stat: Fix saved values rbtree
 lookup

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:40:03PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> The stat shadow saved values rbtree is indexed by a pointer.
> Fix the comparison function:
> 
> - We cannot return a pointer delta as an int because
> that loses bits on 64bit.
> - Doing pointer arithmetic on the struct pointer
> only works if the objects are spaced by the multiple
> of the object size, which is not guaranteed for individual
> malloc'ed object
> 
> Replace it with a proper comparison.
> 
> This fixes various problems with values not being found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

thanks,
jirka