Re: [BUG] perf top -> annotate broken; bisected to 69aad6f1

From: Kirill Smelkov
Date: Tue Jan 11 2011 - 13:23:19 EST


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:23:10PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:11:24PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:35:20PM +0300, Kirill Smelkov escreveu:
> > > Hello up there,
> > >
> > > Since 69aad6f1ee69546dea8535ab8f3da9f445d57328 (perf tools: Introduce
> > > event selectors; Jan 3 2011) annotating a symbol in perf top segfaults:
> > >
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > [Switching to Thread 0xb714cb90 (LWP 4662)]
> > > event_name (evsel=0x0) at util/parse-events.c:274
> > > 274 return __event_name(type, config);
> > > (gdb) bt
> > > #0 event_name (evsel=0x0) at util/parse-events.c:274
> > > #1 0x0805f892 in display_thread (arg=0x9422448) at builtin-top.c:359
> > > #2 0xb77234c0 in start_thread () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> > > #3 0xb732b84e in clone () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> > >
> > >
> > > It used to work...
> >
> > Thanks for the report, working on a fix.
>
> Done, please test it and I'll add a Tested-by: you tag.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> commit 347ad46af282994524510d62a4c70455929b6a9d
> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jan 11 15:16:52 2011 -0200
>
> perf top: Fix annotate segv
>
> Before we had sym_counter, it was initialized to zero and we used that
> as an index in the global attrs variable, now we have a list of evsel
> entries, and sym_counter became sym_evsel, that remained initialized to
> zero (NULL): b00m.
>
> Fix it by initializing it to the first entry in the evsel list.
>
> Bug-introduced: 69aad6f
> Reported-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> index 4b995ee..568b195 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> @@ -1473,6 +1473,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
> pos->attr.sample_period = default_interval;
> }
>
> + sym_evsel = list_entry(evsel_list.next, struct perf_evsel, node);
> +
> symbol_conf.priv_size = (sizeof(struct sym_entry) +
> (nr_counters + 1) * sizeof(unsigned long));

Now it works again, thanks!

Tested-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@xxxxxxxxxx>
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