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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perfcounter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:17:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246882668.8143.10.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246474930-6088-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 21:02 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> +int x86_is_stack_id(int id, char *name)
> +{
> +	return x86_stack_ids[id - 1] == name;
> +}

OK, this bit would need a bit of a comment explaining why this works, as
I don't think the C language guarantees de-duplication of constant
strings.

Therefore the above only works correctly if its passed a pointer from
the x86_stack_ids[] array -- as it indeed is, since the string passed is
obtained through the below method:

> +static unsigned long *in_exception_stack(unsigned cpu, unsigned long stack,
> +					unsigned *usedp, char **idp)
> +{
>  	unsigned k;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -61,7 +68,7 @@ static unsigned long *in_exception_stack(unsigned cpu, unsigned long stack,
>  			if (*usedp & (1U << k))
>  				break;
>  			*usedp |= 1U << k;
> -			*idp = ids[k];
> +			*idp = x86_stack_ids[k];
>  			return (unsigned long *)end;
>  		}
>  		/*



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-01 19:02 [PATCH 1/2] perfcounter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces Frederic Weisbecker
2009-07-01 19:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] perfcounter: Handle pipe read failures in perf stat Frederic Weisbecker
2009-07-01 20:40 ` [tip:perfcounters/urgent] perf_counter: Ignore the nmi call frames in the x86-64 backtraces tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2009-07-06 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-07-07  7:40   ` [PATCH 1/2] perfcounter: " Frederic Weisbecker

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