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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: perf: record segfaults for cycles event when collecting data on a VM
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:30:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209073024.GA18010@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120208175709.GK22598@amd.com>


* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:

> > which makes sense. It forces 
> > perf_session__find_machine_for_cpumode() to return the host 
> > machine always.
> 
> Great, thanks. I will send two patches tomorrow to fix Jason's 
> problem and change the default for perf_guest.

Well, if the crash is fixed then the the default can stay, 
right?

Generally we should treat all input data in a perf.data or even 
the bits we get in the ring-buffer as external data that has to 
be checked carefully, with no assumptions made about data.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08 16:55 perf: record segfaults for cycles event when collecting data on a VM David Ahern
2012-02-08 17:44 ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-08 17:53   ` David Ahern
2012-02-08 17:57     ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-09  7:30       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-02-09 11:14         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-09 13:34           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-09 14:32             ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-09 15:28               ` Joerg Roedel
2012-02-09 15:47                 ` David Ahern
2012-02-09 14:43             ` David Ahern

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