From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760760Ab1LPXrF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:47:05 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:58038 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751462Ab1LPXq5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:46:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:46:47 -0200 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Brian Gitonga Marete Cc: David Ahern , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf top: fix crash on annotate request Message-ID: <20111216234647.GA25813@infradead.org> References: <20111020130041.GB1772@ghostprotocols.net> <20111130181011.GA4111@infradead.org> <20111201141130.GA2323@infradead.org> <20111206134431.GA10709@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.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 Em Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:04:14AM +0300, Brian Gitonga Marete escreveu: > Looking at the code, it seems that the connection between the TUI > interface and the core (where the crash occurs) is that the TUI > interface activates the annotation code which otherwise is not run. So > the bug is probably in the annotation code? Or in the version of the > binary (ELF) decoding libraries that are on my system -- Ubuntu 10.10 I'm travelling, so I was unable to work on this report. I should've already, and thank you for investigating it further. While doing presentations about perf on an Atom (32 bit) machine I noticed crashes while collecting callchains. Are your crashes noticed on 32-bit or 64-bit? I'll try to get it fixed as soon as I get back home. - Arnaldo