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perf tools: Check if callchain is corrupted

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We faced segmentation fault on perf top -G at very high sampling rate
due to a corrupted callchain. While the root cause was not revealed (I
failed to figure it out), this patch tries to protect us from the
segfault on such cases.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443007-24857-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim 2012-05-31 14:43:27 +09:00 • committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 472606458f
commit 114067b69e
2 changed files with 15 additions and 3 deletions
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include/linux/perf_event.h
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@ -555,6 +555,8 @@ enum perf_event_type {
PERF_RECORD_MAX, /* non-ABI */
};
#define PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH 255
enum perf_callchain_context {
PERF_CONTEXT_HV = (__u64)-32,
PERF_CONTEXT_KERNEL = (__u64)-128,
@ -609,8 +611,6 @@ struct perf_guest_info_callbacks {
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <asm/local.h>
#define PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH 255
struct perf_callchain_entry {
__u64 nr;
__u64 ip[PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH];