Hi Stephane and Will, Thanks for tracking this one down. Just out of curiousity,how did you find it?
Phil On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:11 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Phil, Will, > > I took another look at your problem. There was indeed a serious > bug in libpfm. > > In fact two bugs: > - the way we sized pfmlib_regmask_t was bogus (ended up being 4 bytes > instead of 40) > - the kernel pmcs bitmask is bigger than that of libpfm causing buffer > overruns in > detect_unavail_pmcs() > > I think the second bug explained the corruption you were seing. > > I have updated CVS, just pull from it and the problem should go away. > As I anticipated, there were no compiler issues. > > -- > -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
