perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying
authorAlexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:40:12 +0000 (18:40 +0400)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:39:03 +0000 (17:39 -0300)
commit673d659f5c5918b7ddbafebf1f129c9eb82973b4
tree2e2abafb2a325803af41de4f50a399c06c270c7a
parent54bf53b1cb9150b894213a705c562d52388376ef
perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying

Process of analyzing events caused by 2 functions: mmap_read() and
finished_round().

During mmap_read(), perf receives events from shared memory, queues
their pointers for further processing in finished_round() and notifies
the kernel that the events have been processed.

By the time when finished_round() is invoked, queued events can be
overwritten by the kernel, so the finished_round() occurs on potentially
corrupted memory.

Since there is no place where the event can be safely consumed, let's
copy events when queueing.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.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/1412347212-28237-3-git-send-email-yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c