From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752709AbcAFSuO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:50:14 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:34223 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751959AbcAFSuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:50:09 -0500 From: Stephane Eranian To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: acme@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, ak@linux.intel.com, kan.liang@intel.com, jolsa@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] perf pmu: fix alias->snapshot missing initialization bug Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:50:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1452106201-13073-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch fixes a bug in __perf_pmu__new_alias() whereby the alias->snapshot field was not initialized to false. This led to random alias->snapshot value for an alias and was breaking some measurements such as: $ perf stat -a -e uncore_imc/data_reads/ -I 1000 sleep 100 Because the event ended up being treated as snapshot mode, when it is not. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian --- tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c index e4b173d..b597bcc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c @@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static int __perf_pmu__new_alias(struct list_head *list, char *dir, char *name, alias->scale = 1.0; alias->unit[0] = '\0'; alias->per_pkg = false; + alias->snapshot = false; ret = parse_events_terms(&alias->terms, val); if (ret) { -- 2.5.0