Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 24 2011 - 15:18:05 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The distro version on that box you are using would be helpful, plus the build
> > output you get when you build 'tools/perf'. (I.e. which libraries are there. If it
> > comes up empty with no complaints you have all the devel libraries.)
>
> and a gdb backtrace of the perf report lockup site would be helpful too i suspect.

There's two areas that would be prime suspects: the ELF symbol lookup code, or the
call-chain code.

Neither is expected to lock up, on arbitrary input of perf.data.

Thanks,

Ingo
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