Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix sibling iteration

[Jiri Olsa]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:31:29AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:59:34PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On 15.03.2018 20:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Subject: perf: Fix sibling iteration
> > > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu Mar 15 17:36:56 CET 2018
> > > 
> > > Mark noticed that the change to sibling_list changed some iteration
> > > semantics; because previously we used group_list as list entry,
> > > sibling events would always have an empty sibling_list.
> > > 
> > > But because we now use sibling_list for both list head and list entry,
> > > siblings will report as having siblings.
> > > 
> > > Fix this with a custom for_each_sibling_event() iterator.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: 8343aae66167 ("perf/core: Remove perf_event::group_entry")
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Applied to tip repo and run testing on Fedora 27/x86_64 (client skylake 8 cores):
> 
> There is at least one more known issue with that patch, but neither Mark
> nor me could reproduce so far, so we don't know if we're right about the
> cause.

is there more info about that issue? I could try it

thanks,
jirka