linux-stable.git/tools/perf/tests/task-exit.c, branch linux-3.12.y Linux kernel stable tree perf tools: Fixup mmap event consumption 2013-10-28T19:06:00+00:00 Zhouyi Zhou zhouzhouyi@gmail.com 2013-10-24T07:43:33+00:00 8e50d384cc1d5afd2989cf0f7093756ed7164eb2 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> 
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>
perf test: Add test case for checking number of EXIT events 2013-03-15T16:06:12+00:00 Namhyung Kim namhyung.kim@lge.com 2013-03-15T05:58:11+00:00 d723a55096b81a13c319485f01994e0a539efcf9 The new test__task_exit() test runs a simple "/usr/bin/true" workload and then checks whether the number of EXIT event is 1 or not. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87obeljax4.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com [ committer note: Fixup conflicts with f4c66b4 ( bp overflow tests ) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 
The new test__task_exit() test runs a simple "/usr/bin/true" workload and then
checks whether the number of EXIT event is 1 or not.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87obeljax4.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com
[ committer note: Fixup conflicts with f4c66b4 ( bp overflow tests ) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>