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authorZhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>2013-10-24 07:43:33 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-10-28 19:06:00 (GMT)
commit8e50d384cc1d5afd2989cf0f7093756ed7164eb2 (patch)
tree87e34b49783a32d8552eaad510d0b5fba94ee08e /tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c
parentae779a630977d93fbebfa06216ea47df5b5c62c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-8e50d384cc1d5afd2989cf0f7093756ed7164eb2.tar.xz
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 <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382600613-32177-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com [ Simplified the logic using exit gotos and renamed write_tail method to mmap_consume ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c b/tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c
index 2e41e2d..6e2b44e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/sw-clock.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int __test__sw_clock_freq(enum perf_sw_ids clock_id)
struct perf_sample sample;
if (event->header.type != PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE)
- continue;
+ goto next_event;
err = perf_evlist__parse_sample(evlist, event, &sample);
if (err < 0) {
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ static int __test__sw_clock_freq(enum perf_sw_ids clock_id)
total_periods += sample.period;
nr_samples++;
+next_event:
+ perf_evlist__mmap_consume(evlist, 0);
}
if ((u64) nr_samples == total_periods) {