Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] perf record: bind the AIO user space buffers to nodes

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 03:24:36PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:

SNIP

> +static void perf_mmap__aio_free(void **data, size_t len __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +	zfree(data);
> +}
> +
> +static void perf_mmap__aio_bind(void *data __maybe_unused, size_t len __maybe_unused,
> +                                int cpu __maybe_unused, int affinity __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  static int perf_mmap__aio_mmap(struct perf_mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp)
>  {
>  	int delta_max, i, prio;
> @@ -177,11 +220,13 @@ static int perf_mmap__aio_mmap(struct perf_mmap *map, struct mmap_params *mp)
>  		}
>  		delta_max = sysconf(_SC_AIO_PRIO_DELTA_MAX);
>  		for (i = 0; i < map->aio.nr_cblocks; ++i) {
> -			map->aio.data[i] = malloc(perf_mmap__mmap_len(map));
> +			size_t mmap_len = perf_mmap__mmap_len(map);
> +			perf_mmap__aio_alloc(&(map->aio.data[i]), mmap_len);
>  			if (!map->aio.data[i]) {
>  				pr_debug2("failed to allocate data buffer area, error %m");
>  				return -1;
>  			}
> +			perf_mmap__aio_bind(map->aio.data[i], mmap_len, map->cpu, mp->affinity);

this all does not work if bind fails.. I think we need to
propagate the error value here and fail

jirka