From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: __perf_evlist__mmap: Fix errno value on failed map.
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:16 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111219162916.GA28058@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k45sr2yd.fsf@gmail.com>
Em Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33:30AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> writes:
> > On failure, perf_evlist__mmap_per_{cpu,thread} will try to munmap()
> > every map that doesn't have a NULL base. This will fail with EINVAL if
> > one of them has base == MAP_FAILED, clobbering errno, so that
> > perf_evlist__map will return EINVAL on any failure regardless of the
> > root cause.
> >
> > Fix this by resetting failed maps to a NULL base.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
> Thanks for fixing this. I posted a basically same patch for this [1]
> last week, but it seems my patch doesn't get included yet (right?),
> and your patch looks bit simpler. So Arnaldo, I'm totally fine if you
> decide to take this instead of mine.
Ok, and thank you both for the fixes, I was out on a business trip so a
bit backlogged right now, will get to your patches as soon as possible,
Thanks!
- Arnaldo
> Thanks.
> Namhyung Kim
>
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/12/275
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-19 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 13:39 [PATCH 0/3] perf: builtin-record: Be more helpful when running up against mlock limits Nelson Elhage
2011-12-19 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf: __perf_evlist__mmap: Fix errno value on failed map Nelson Elhage
2011-12-19 15:33 ` Namhyung Kim
2011-12-19 16:29 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-12-20 17:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-12-21 8:43 ` [tip:perf/core] perf evlist: Fix errno value reporting on failed mmap tip-bot for Nelson Elhage
2011-12-19 13:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM Nelson Elhage
2011-12-29 20:50 ` [tip:perf/core] perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap' ing " tip-bot for Nelson Elhage
2011-12-19 13:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two Nelson Elhage
2011-12-29 20:50 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Nelson Elhage
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