The tail position of the event buffer should only be modified after
actually use that event.
If not the event buffer could be invalid before use, and segment fault
occurs when invoking perf top -G.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382600613-32177-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com
[ Simplified the logic using exit gotos and renamed write_tail method to mmap_consume ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a test for the newly added PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY event. The test
checks that tracking events continue when an event is disabled but a
dummy software event is not disabled.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Zhouyi Zhou
Adrian Hunter