Re: [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] perf/probe: Fix perf probe to find correct variable DIE

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 03 2014 - 14:30:11 EST



* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:39:14PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Hi Arnaldo,
> >
> > Here is the patch which fixes perf probe to find variable
> > location correctly, on the recent dwarf format. This is not
> > related to the SEGV issue which I fixed in previous mail.
> >
> > Thank you,
>
> hi,
> I took both patches to my perf/core.. will check
> if Ingo wants the segfault fix via perf/urgent

Yeah, segfaults (or any other random/uncontrolled user space behavior)
we generally want to fix via perf/urgent. (Please also put a Cc:
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tag into it, in case it misses v3.15.)

Thanks,

Ingo
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