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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:12:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110201234.GL7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXG5k8Pk8ctYPJ_uKhVbyQ9=vVEgLeXb3Zvw+V+JSDMFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:56:07AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>  - The perf callchain code tries to read from a bad userspace pointer
> (not sure why -- the ip value in the vsyscall page *is* readable).
> That traps (as expected), but the trap handler injects SIGSEGV due to
> sig_on_uaccess_fault==1.

So the perf thing tries to walk the entire stack in order to obtain a
callchain. Its fairly common to hit crap when attempting this :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-10 15:29 SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel Waiman Long
2014-01-10 16:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 17:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 17:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 18:54       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 19:43         ` Waiman Long
2014-01-10 19:56           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 20:12             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-01-10 20:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 20:28           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-15 15:33           ` Waiman Long
2014-01-16 13:39           ` [tip:perf/core] x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-17 18:10             ` Waiman Long
2014-01-17 19:17               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-17 20:08                 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-17 21:07                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 19:37     ` SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel Waiman Long
2014-01-10 20:10       ` Peter Zijlstra

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