Re: [PATCH] perf report: Fix invalid memory accessing

From: Wangnan (F)
Date: Tue Sep 08 2015 - 04:14:02 EST




On 2015/9/8 15:37, Jiri Olsa wrote:
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 09:27:26PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:

SNIP

I found the problem.

perf relies on build_cpu_topology() to fetch CPU_TOPOLOGY from sysfs. It
depend on
the existance of

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%d/topology/core_siblings_list

However, CPU can be canceled by hotcpu subsystem. After that the directory
of
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%d/topology is gone, which causes perf's
write_cpu_topology() --> uild_cpu_topology() to fail, result in the above
perf.data.

So I think my patch is required.
no question there.. I just meant it should be placed in
perf_event__preprocess_sample function with the rest of
the 'al' initialization, like in the patch below?

it does not compile, because there're many places calling
it and it'd need changing all callers to pass env, which
seems to require more changes..

also I'm not sure about removing:
- al->socket = cpu_map__get_socket_id(al->cpu);


Does any command actually need this initialized from current system?

thanks,
jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 0bf8c9889fc0..3339d2579bfc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -990,7 +990,8 @@ void thread__find_addr_location(struct thread *thread,
int perf_event__preprocess_sample(const union perf_event *event,
struct machine *machine,
struct addr_location *al,
- struct perf_sample *sample)
+ struct perf_sample *sample,
+ struct perf_env *env)
{
u8 cpumode = event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK;
struct thread *thread = machine__findnew_thread(machine, sample->pid,
@@ -1021,7 +1022,10 @@ int perf_event__preprocess_sample(const union perf_event *event,
al->sym = NULL;
al->cpu = sample->cpu;
- al->socket = cpu_map__get_socket_id(al->cpu);
+
+ al.socket = -1;
+ if (env->cpu && al->cpu >= 0)
+ al.socket = env->cpu[al->cpu].socket_id;
if (al->map) {
struct dso *dso = al->map->dso;

Now I understand your suggestion. You mean we can build env->cpu before
processing the first sample, then init al.socket using that map instead
of calling cpu_map__get_socket_id() unconditionally in an ad-hoc way.

And I have another question that, since build_cpu_topo() and
perf_event__preprocess_sample() are more or less doing similar things,
why we need both of them?

Then we need more code for this bug...

Kan Liang, do you have any suggestion?

Thank you.


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