[GIT PULL] perf fixlet

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sun Aug 22 2010 - 00:06:06 EST


Ingo,

Please pull the perf/urgent branch that can be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
perf/urgent

Thanks,
Frederic
---

Frederic Weisbecker (1):
perf: Initialize callchains roots's childen hits


tools/perf/util/callchain.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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commit 944c88c5ebf7bead43a98fc4cb89b195ee8792d1
Author: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 22 04:29:17 2010 +0200

perf: Initialize callchains roots's childen hits

Each histogram entry has a callchain root that stores the
callchain samples. However we forgot to initialize the
tracking of children hits of these roots, which then got
random values on their creation.

The root children hits is multiplied by the minimum percentage
of hits provided by the user, and the result becomes the minimum
hits expected from children branches. If the random value due
to the uninitialization is big enough, then this minimum number
of hits can be huge and eventually filter every children branches.

The end result was invisible callchains. All we need to
fix this is to initialize the children hits of the root.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 2.6.32.x-2.6.35.y <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
index 624a96c..6de4313 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static inline void callchain_init(struct callchain_node *node)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->children);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->val);

+ node->children_hit = 0;
node->parent = NULL;
node->hit = 0;
}
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