This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf hists browser: Take the --comm, --dsos, etc filters into account
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-hists-browser-take-the-comm-dsos-etc-filters-into-account.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 9c0fa8dd3d58de8b688fda758eea1719949c7f0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:26:35 -0300
Subject: perf hists browser: Take the --comm, --dsos, etc filters into account
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
commit 9c0fa8dd3d58de8b688fda758eea1719949c7f0a upstream.
At some point:
commit 2c86c7ca7606
Author: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Mar 17 18:18:54 2014 -0300
perf report: Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered
We stopped dropping samples for things filtered via the --comms, --dsos,
--symbols, etc, i.e. things marked as filtered in the symbol resolution
routines (thread__find_addr_map(), perf_event__preprocess_sample(),
etc).
But then, in:
commit 268397cb2a47
Author: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 22 14:49:31 2014 +0900
perf top/tui: Update nr_entries properly after a filter is applied
We don't take into account entries that were filtered in
perf_event__preprocess_sample() and friends, which leads to
inconsistency in the browser seek routines, that expects the number of
hist_entry->filtered entries to match what it thinks is the number of
unfiltered, browsable entries.
So, for instance, when we do:
perf top --symbols ___non_existent_symbol___
the hist_browser__nr_entries() routine thinks there are no filters in
place, uses the hists->nr_entries but all entries are filtered, leading
to a segfault.
Tested with:
perf top --symbols malloc,free --percentage=relative
Freezing, by pressing 'f', at any time and doing the math on the
percentages ends up with 100%, ditto for:
perf top --dsos libpthread-2.20.so,libxul.so --percentage=relative
Both were segfaulting, all fixed now.
More work needed to do away with checking if filters are in place, we
should just use the nr_non_filtered_samples counter, no need to
conditionally use it or hists.nr_filter, as what the browser does is
just show unfiltered stuff. An audit of how it is being accounted is
needed, this is the minimal fix.
Reported-by: Michael Petlan <[email protected]>
Fixes: 268397cb2a47 ("perf top/tui: Update nr_entries properly after a filter
is applied")
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static struct rb_node *hists__filter_ent
static bool hist_browser__has_filter(struct hist_browser *hb)
{
- return hists__has_filter(hb->hists) || hb->min_pcnt;
+ return hists__has_filter(hb->hists) || hb->min_pcnt ||
symbol_conf.has_filter;
}
static int hist_browser__get_folding(struct hist_browser *browser)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.1/perf-hists-browser-take-the-comm-dsos-etc-filters-into-account.patch
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