Re: [PATCH/RFC 09/16] perf tools: Update hist entry's hists pointer

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Sun Dec 13 2015 - 18:23:46 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:53:28PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> When sample is processed using multi-thread, each sample is gathered on
> each thread's hist tree and then merged into the real hist tree. But
> hist_entry->hists pointer was not updated so it could refer wrong hists
> resulted in missing outputs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/hist.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> index ea4f3ad978b0..a12e5022fe04 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
> @@ -1008,6 +1008,14 @@ bool hists__collapse_insert_entry(struct hists *hists __maybe_unused,

there's 'struct hists *hists __maybe_unused' in hists__collapse_insert_entry def..

jirka

> }
> hists->nr_entries++;
>
> + /*
> + * If a hist entry is processed in multi-threaded environment,
> + * it points to a dummy local hists which was used only for
> + * intermidate processing. So update it to a real one so that
> + * it can find the correct info later.
> + */
> + he->hists = hists;
> +
> rb_link_node(&he->rb_node_in, parent, p);
> rb_insert_color(&he->rb_node_in, root);
> return true;
> --
> 2.6.2
>
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