From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751345AbbJBUZ6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:25:58 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45172 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbbJBUZ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:25:57 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim , David Ahern , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 01/10] perf record: Allocate area for sample_id_hdr in a synthesized comm event Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:25:36 -0300 Message-Id: <1443817545-8551-2-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <1443817545-8551-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1443817545-8551-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim A previous patch added a synthesized comm event for forked child process but it missed that the event should contain area for sample_id_hdr at the end. It worked by accident since the perf_event union contains bigger event structs like mmap_events. This patch fixes it by dynamically allocating event struct including those area like in perf_event__synthesize_thread_map(). Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443577526-3240-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index a01c8ae1ee07..5e01c070dbf2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -637,17 +637,25 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv) * Let the child rip */ if (forks) { - union perf_event event; + union perf_event *event; + + event = malloc(sizeof(event->comm) + machine->id_hdr_size); + if (event == NULL) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out_child; + } + /* * Some H/W events are generated before COMM event * which is emitted during exec(), so perf script * cannot see a correct process name for those events. * Synthesize COMM event to prevent it. */ - perf_event__synthesize_comm(tool, &event, + perf_event__synthesize_comm(tool, event, rec->evlist->workload.pid, process_synthesized_event, machine); + free(event); perf_evlist__start_workload(rec->evlist); } -- 2.1.0