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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] trace_function_graph: consumed event may be invalid
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:54:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090630105416.GA5249@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A49C96C.6070305@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 04:14:36PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> 
> In get_return_for_leaf() {
> 	......
> 	ring_buffer_consume()
> 	......
> 	access to @curr->ent.pid
> }
> 
> @curr is saved at consumed event, if this event is the last event
> in the page, the ring_buffer may reuse the page. It will become invalid.


Indeed!

 
> Is there any other code to ensure it valid when we `cat trace_pipe`?
> 
> Lai.


The only solution I see is to do a copy of the entry before consuming it.
I'll try that, thanks for your report!

Frederic.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30  8:14 [QUESTION] trace_function_graph: consumed event may be invalid Lai Jiangshan
2009-06-30 10:54 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]

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