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authorZhouyi Zhou <[email protected]>2013-10-24 07:43:33 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2013-10-28 19:06:00 +0000
commit8e50d384cc1d5afd2989cf0f7093756ed7164eb2 (patch)
tree87e34b49783a32d8552eaad510d0b5fba94ee08e /tools/perf/util/python.c
parentperf top: Split -G and --call-graph (diff)
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perf tools: Fixup mmap event consumption
The tail position of the event buffer should only be modified after actually use that event. If not the event buffer could be invalid before use, and segment fault occurs when invoking perf top -G. Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Simplified the logic using exit gotos and renamed write_tail method to mmap_consume ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python.c b/tools/perf/util/python.c
index 71b5412bbbb9..2ac4bc92bb1f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python.c
@@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ static PyObject *pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu(struct pyrf_evlist *pevlist,
PyObject *pyevent = pyrf_event__new(event);
struct pyrf_event *pevent = (struct pyrf_event *)pyevent;
+ perf_evlist__mmap_consume(evlist, cpu);
+
if (pyevent == NULL)
return PyErr_NoMemory();