Re: [PATCH] perf top: fix crash on annotate request

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/2011 01:20 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Can you check if that is the problem? I.e. take notes->lock, check if
> ->src is NULL, if so call symbol__alloc_hist, etc?
> 

Reproduced it on a lab box. This fixes the segfault:

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index bc8f477..6bd501a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -253,6 +253,17 @@ static int symbol__parse_objdump_line(struct symbol
*sym, struct map *map,
        free(line);
        return -1;
    }
+
+   pthread_mutex_lock(&notes->lock);
+   if (notes->src == NULL &&
+       symbol__alloc_hist(sym, 1) < 0) {
+       pthread_mutex_unlock(&notes->lock);
+       ui__warning("Not enough memory for annotating '%s' symbol!\n",
+               sym->name);
+       return -1;
+   }
+   pthread_mutex_unlock(&notes->lock);
+
    objdump__add_line(&notes->src->source, objdump_line);

    return 0;

Should I plumb nr_events down versus assuming its 1?