Re: [RFC] perf/perf_events: misleading number of samples due to mmap()

[stephane eranian]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:40 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> This leads me to another point. For per-thread sampling, why
>> do we need to record mmap() events happening *outside* of
>> the process? I can understand the exception of kernel modules.
>
> How does that happen? The per-thread events should be on the per-task
> context, so another task's mmap() events should never end up there.
>

I don't see the test that says the vma does not belong to the current task.
I also don't see anything in perf_event_mmap_match().

It does seem to work as you said in recent kernels, though. So I am certainly
missing something here.
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