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authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-02-03 22:31:13 +0530
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-02-06 18:59:38 -0200
commita4a03fc7ef89020baca4f19174e6a43767c6d78a (patch)
tree4b32c000a6b8767868293432bf1a6c748b391af8 /tools/perf
parentbf32c9ebc9890764c7a9984e3a0c8a57a059753d (diff)
perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage
This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe: -nan% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% packagekitd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces the initialization and it fixes the problem for me. With the below patch, for the same perf.data: 73.08% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 8.97% 11-dhclient [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 6.41% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 3.85% 20-chrony [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 2.56% sendmail [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284. Problem introduced in: $ git describe 640c03c v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6 Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 667f3b78bb2c..7132ee834e0e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data));
data->cpu = data->pid = data->tid = -1;
data->stream_id = data->id = data->time = -1ULL;
+ data->period = 1;
if (event->header.type != PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE) {
if (!sample_id_all)