Re: [GIT PULL 0/4] perf/core improvements

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:00:09AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner escreveu:
> > Investigating. Please wait
> 
> Thanks, as I said on IRC, perhaps I neglected the non-perf bits of perf

It's a perf bit of perf. You simply broke the inheritance
code. Testing perf with something more complex than "sleep 1" might
have shown this :)

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Subject: perf: Fix event inherit fallout of precalculated headers
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:42:10 +0100

The precalculated header size is not updated when an event is inherited. That
results in bogus sample entries for all child events.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/perf_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -6184,6 +6184,12 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_
 	child_event->overflow_handler = parent_event->overflow_handler;
 
 	/*
+	 * Precalculate sample_data sizes
+	 */
+	perf_event__header_size(child_event);
+	perf_event__id_header_size(child_event);
+
+	/*
 	 * Link it up in the child's context:
 	 */
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&child_ctx->lock, flags);