Linus reported this perf annotate segfault:
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ perf annotate unmap_vmas
Segmentation fault
#0 map__clone (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:236
#1 thread__fork (self=<value optimized out>) at builtin-annotate.c:372
The bug here was that builtin-annotate.c was a copy of
builtin-report.c and a threading related fix to builtin-report.c
didnt get propagated to builtin-annotate.c ...
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(void *)(long)(event->header.size),
event->fork.pid, event->fork.ppid);
+ /*
+ * A thread clone will have the same PID for both
+ * parent and child.
+ */
+ if (thread == parent)
+ return 0;
+
if (!thread || !parent || thread__fork(thread, parent)) {
dprintf("problem processing PERF_EVENT_FORK, skipping event.\n");
return -1;