Re: [BUG PATCH] perf: kvm - finding struct machine fails for PERF_RECORD_MMAP

From: David Ahern
Date: Mon Apr 09 2012 - 16:18:09 EST


On 4/9/12 2:22 AM, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote:
From: Nikunj A. Dadhania<nikunj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Running 'perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount /tmp/guestmount record -a -g -- sleep 2'

Was resulting in a segfault. For event type PERF_RECORD_MMAP,
event->ip.pid is being used in perf_session__find_machine_for_cpumode,
which is not correct.

I'm not getting the segfault with latest tip/perf/urgent, but I am getting a hang.

It's stuck on buildid:

(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fabf53e79da in mmap64 () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000000000454656 in __perf_session__process_events (session=0x1e06110,
data_offset=<value optimized out>, data_size=<value optimized out>, file_size=37328,
tool=0x75db40) at util/session.c:1192
#2 0x00000000004102e6 in process_buildids (status=<value optimized out>, arg=0x75cc00)
at builtin-record.c:320
#3 perf_record__exit (status=<value optimized out>, arg=0x75cc00) at builtin-record.c:333
#4 0x00007fabf53419c9 in exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000406b84 in handle_internal_command (argc=9, argv=0x7fff3f14d6c0) at perf.c:345
#6 run_argv (argc=9, argv=0x7fff3f14d6c0) at perf.c:389
#7 main (argc=9, argv=0x7fff3f14d6c0) at perf.c:487


Adding -B works around it and proves something is not right regarding buildid's and perf-kvm. I'll dig into it as time allows, but wanted to send this out in case Arnaldo understands the problem now.

David


event->ip.pid happens to be 0 in this case and results in returning a
NULL machine object. Finally, access to self->pid in
machine__mmap_name, results in a segfault later.

For PERF_RECORD_MMAP type, pass event->mmap.pid.

Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania<nikunj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

tools/perf/util/session.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 9412e3b..00923cd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -826,8 +826,16 @@ static struct machine *
{
const u8 cpumode = event->header.misc& PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK;

- if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL&& perf_guest)
- return perf_session__find_machine(session, event->ip.pid);
+ if (cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL&& perf_guest) {
+ u32 pid;
+
+ if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_MMAP)
+ pid = event->mmap.pid;
+ else
+ pid = event->ip.pid;
+
+ return perf_session__find_machine(session, pid);
+ }

return perf_session__find_host_machine(session);
}

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