Re: [PATCH] perf tool sort: Use default sort if evlist is empty

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Jul 24 2017 - 03:47:48 EST


On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 08:09:49AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> > > also I've got another crash for (added -a option for above example):
> > >
> > > [root@krava perf]# ./perf record -e 'sched:sched_switch' -a sleep 1 | ./perf report
> > > # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
> > > #
> > > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.000 MB (null) ]
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > >
> > > catchsegv got:
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/util/ordered-events.c:85(free_dup_event)[0x51a6a5]
> > > ./perf(ordered_events__free+0x5c)[0x51b0b7]
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/util/session.c:1751(__perf_session__process_pipe_events)[0x518abb]
> > > ./perf(perf_session__process_events+0x91)[0x5190f0]
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/builtin-report.c:598(__cmd_report)[0x443a91]
> > > ./perf(cmd_report+0x169b)[0x4455a3]
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/perf.c:296(run_builtin)[0x4be1b0]
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/perf.c:348(handle_internal_command)[0x4be41d]
> > > /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/perf.c:395(run_argv)[0x4be56f]
> > > ./perf(main+0x2d6)[0x4be949]
> > > /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1)[0x7f3de8a10401]
> > > ./perf(_start+0x2a)[0x42831a]
> > >
> > > looks like some mem corruption.. will try to follow up
> > > on this later if nobody beats me to it ;-)
> >
> > Cannot reproduce it in acme's perf/core building the tool with
> > make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 LDFLAGS=-static
> >
> > If you have a file with the perf record output causing perf report's
> > crash, I'd like to take a look.

hm, I can't reproduce any longer.. :-\

jirka