From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932367AbcHIQEU (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:04:20 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:58962 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752115AbcHIQBw (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:01:52 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Adrian Hunter , David Ahern , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim Subject: [PATCH 02/11] perf hists: Trim libtraceevent trace_seq buffers Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:01:25 -0300 Message-Id: <1470758494-32127-3-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1470758494-32127-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1470758494-32127-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by merlin.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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo When we use libtraceevent to format trace event fields into printable strings to use in hist entries it is important to trim it from the default 4 KiB it starts with to what is really used, to reduce the memory footprint, so use realloc(seq.buffer, seq.len + 1) when returning the seq.buffer formatted with the fields contents. Reported-and-Tested-by: Wang Nan Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t3hl7uxmilrkigzmc90rlhk2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c index 947d21f38398..3d3cb8392c86 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c @@ -588,7 +588,11 @@ static char *get_trace_output(struct hist_entry *he) } else { pevent_event_info(&seq, evsel->tp_format, &rec); } - return seq.buffer; + /* + * Trim the buffer, it starts at 4KB and we're not going to + * add anything more to this buffer. + */ + return realloc(seq.buffer, seq.len + 1); } static int64_t -- 2.7.4