From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752650Ab3JAOnb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:43:31 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:47528 "EHLO mail-pb0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751561Ab3JAOnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:43:24 -0400 Message-ID: <524ADF84.4080801@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:43:16 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Namhyung Kim , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Namhyung Kim , LKML , Jiri Olsa , Sonny Rao Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf session: Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file References: <1380529188-27193-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20131001071646.GA20023@gmail.com> <524ACD2A.7040902@gmail.com> <20131001142154.GA31298@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131001142154.GA31298@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/1/13 8:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > But if I understood it correctly this particular message could trigger for > regular users of perf as well, of the perf record is terminated in some > unusual fashion. Regular users might not have the perf code handy (and > might not know about git grep either). This is the case I was referring to -- normal users don't care about the code reference, hence the more specific question about how the perf-record session ended.