Re: perf-4.8.0-rc3: Segmentation fault

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Tue Aug 30 2016 - 06:00:58 EST


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:44:50AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>> Em Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:49:41PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan escreveu:
>> > I profiled kernel allmodconfig build (don't ask) and perf tui reliably
>> > segfaults when trying to enter annotation mode for any of the
>> > individual functions. It segfaults immediately before even showing
>> > menu with choices.
>> >
>> > perf: Segmentation fault
>> > -------- backtrace --------
>> > perf[0x5451fb]
>> > /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x33290)[0x7fcec0a80290]
>> > perf(__map__is_kernel+0x26)[0x4bbcd6]
>> > perf[0x54287c]
>> > perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x94)[0x543e84]
>> > perf(cmd_report+0x1a34)[0x434884]
>> > perf[0x478471]
>> > perf(main+0x6c6)[0x4237e6]
>> > /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fcec0a6d630]
>> > perf(_start+0x29)[0x4238e9]
>> >
>> > Steps to reproduce:
>> > rm -rf ../xxx
>> > mkdir ../xxx
>> > make O=../xxx ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
>> > perf record -e cycles make O=../xxx -k -j5
>> > perf report
>> >
>> > perf.data is 1.23 GB long , so be prepared.
>>
>> Thanks for the report, trying to reproduce this.
>
> So, I built the kernel with my normal .config, using your command line and got:

I've lost vmlinux and can't recreate it anymore. Oh well.