linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf intel-pt: Insert callchain context into synthesized callchains

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:20:45 +0200
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, leo.yan@...aro.org,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf intel-pt: Insert callchain context into
 synthesized callchains

On 31/10/18 4:15 PM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 31/10/18 3:28 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:10:42AM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>>> In the absence of a fallback, callchains must encode also the callchain
>>> context. Do that now there is no fallback.
>>
>> So, this one is independent of the first 3 patches, right?
> 
> Yes.  I was just going to test it separately when I noticed I had
> screwed up my earlier testing.  When I re-tested I discovered this patch
> has an off-by-one error:
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread-stack.c b/tools/perf/util/thread-stack.c
> index afdf36852ac8..61a4286a74dc 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/thread-stack.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/thread-stack.c
> @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ void thread_stack__sample(struct thread *thread, struct ip_callchain *chain,
>  
>  	last_context = context;
>  
> -	for (i = 2, j = 0; i < sz && j < thread->ts->cnt; i++, j++) {
> +	for (i = 2, j = 1; i < sz && j <= thread->ts->cnt; i++, j++) {
>  		ip = thread->ts->stack[thread->ts->cnt - j].ret_addr;
>  		context = callchain_context(ip, kernel_start);
>  		if (context != last_context) {
> 
> Shall I send V2?

I have attached it

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