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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2014-01-17 10:34:06 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-01-20 14:19:09 -0500
commit8ad9219e08af12a5652892e273336dbd31b25b03 (patch)
tree1e6262924a82d720a753b4f6f4c681e52fe6ec93 /tools
parentde256a4e6b9096070a5305950c7d693395150680 (diff)
perf stat: Fix memory corruption of xyarray when cpumask is used
This patch fixes a memory corruption problem with the xyarray when the evsel fds get closed at the end of the run_perf_stat() call. It could be triggered with: # perf stat -a -e power/energy-cores/ ls When cpumask are used by events (.e.g, RAPL or uncores) then the evsel fds are allocated based on the actual number of CPUs monitored. That number can be smaller than the total number of CPUs on the system. The problem arises at the end by perf stat closes the fds twice. When fds are closed, their entry in the xyarray are set to -1. The first close() on the evsel is made from __run_perf_stat() and it uses the actual number of CPUS for the event which is how the xyarray was allocated for. The second is from perf_evlist_close() but that one is on the total number of CPUs in the system, so it assume the xyarray was allocated to cover it. However it was not, and some writes corrupt memory. The fix is in perf_evlist_close() is to first try with the evsel->cpus if present, if not use the evlist->cpus. That fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389972846-6566-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evlist.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 40bd2c04df8a..59ef2802fcf6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1003,9 +1003,12 @@ void perf_evlist__close(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
1003 struct perf_evsel *evsel; 1003 struct perf_evsel *evsel;
1004 int ncpus = cpu_map__nr(evlist->cpus); 1004 int ncpus = cpu_map__nr(evlist->cpus);
1005 int nthreads = thread_map__nr(evlist->threads); 1005 int nthreads = thread_map__nr(evlist->threads);
1006 int n;
1006 1007
1007 evlist__for_each_reverse(evlist, evsel) 1008 evlist__for_each_reverse(evlist, evsel) {
1008 perf_evsel__close(evsel, ncpus, nthreads); 1009 n = evsel->cpus ? evsel->cpus->nr : ncpus;
1010 perf_evsel__close(evsel, n, nthreads);
1011 }
1009} 1012}
1010 1013
1011int perf_evlist__open(struct perf_evlist *evlist) 1014int perf_evlist__open(struct perf_evlist *evlist)