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<title>perf tools: Do proper comm override error handling</title>
<updated>2014-01-16T19:44:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2014-01-14T15:37:14+00:00</published>
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The comm overriding API ignores memory allocation failures by silently
keeping the previous and out of date comm.

As a result, the user may get buggy events without ever being notified
about the problem and its source.

Lets start to fix this by propagating the error from the API. Not all
callers may be doing proper error handling on comm set yet but this is
the first step toward it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389713836-13375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The comm overriding API ignores memory allocation failures by silently
keeping the previous and out of date comm.

As a result, the user may get buggy events without ever being notified
about the problem and its source.

Lets start to fix this by propagating the error from the API. Not all
callers may be doing proper error handling on comm set yet but this is
the first step toward it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389713836-13375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Use zfree to help detect use after free bugs</title>
<updated>2013-12-27T20:08:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-12-27T19:55:14+00:00</published>
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Several areas already used this technique, so do some audit to
consistently use it elsewhere.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9sbere0kkplwe45ak6rk4a1f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Several areas already used this technique, so do some audit to
consistently use it elsewhere.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9sbere0kkplwe45ak6rk4a1f@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf tools: Get current comm instead of last one</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T15:16:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-13T07:28:57+00:00</published>
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At insert time, a hist entry should reference comm at the time otherwise
it'll get the last comm anyway.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n6pykiiymtgmcjs834go2t8x@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed up const pointer issues ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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At insert time, a hist entry should reference comm at the time otherwise
it'll get the last comm anyway.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n6pykiiymtgmcjs834go2t8x@git.kernel.org
[ Fixed up const pointer issues ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf tools: Add new COMM infrastructure</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T15:13:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T14:56:44+00:00</published>
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This new COMM infrastructure provides two features:

1) It keeps track of all comms lifecycle for a given thread. This way we
can associate a timeframe to any thread COMM, as long as
PERF_SAMPLE_TIME samples are joined to COMM and fork events.

As a result we should have more precise COMM sorted hists with seperated
entries for pre and post exec time after a fork.

2) It also makes sure that a given COMM string is not duplicated but
rather shared among the threads that refer to it. This way the threads
COMM can be compared against pointer values from the sort
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hwjf70b2wve9m2kosxiq8bb3@git.kernel.org
[ Rename some accessor functions ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
[ Use __ as separator for class__method for private comm_str methods ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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This new COMM infrastructure provides two features:

1) It keeps track of all comms lifecycle for a given thread. This way we
can associate a timeframe to any thread COMM, as long as
PERF_SAMPLE_TIME samples are joined to COMM and fork events.

As a result we should have more precise COMM sorted hists with seperated
entries for pre and post exec time after a fork.

2) It also makes sure that a given COMM string is not duplicated but
rather shared among the threads that refer to it. This way the threads
COMM can be compared against pointer values from the sort
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hwjf70b2wve9m2kosxiq8bb3@git.kernel.org
[ Rename some accessor functions ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
[ Use __ as separator for class__method for private comm_str methods ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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