From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756854Ab3JOCCB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:02:01 -0400 Received: from lgeamrelo01.lge.com ([156.147.1.125]:62654 "EHLO LGEAMRELO01.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755326Ab3JOCB7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:01:59 -0400 X-AuditID: 9c93017d-b7b2eae000005519-98-525ca216f4eb From: Namhyung Kim To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Namhyung Kim , LKML , Jiri Olsa , David Ahern Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Compare dso's also when comparing symbols Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:01:56 +0900 Message-Id: <1381802517-18812-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.7 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim Linus reported that sometimes 'perf report -s symbol' exits without any message on TUI. David and Jiri found that it's because it failed to add a hist entry due to an invalid symbol length. It turns out that sorting by symbol (address) was broken since it only compares symbol addresses. The symbol address is a relative address within a dso thus just checking its address can result in merging unrelated symbols together. Fix it by checking dso before comparing symbol address. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim --- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c index 32c56377e008..1f9821db9e77 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c @@ -182,9 +182,19 @@ static int64_t _sort__sym_cmp(struct symbol *sym_l, struct symbol *sym_r) static int64_t sort__sym_cmp(struct hist_entry *left, struct hist_entry *right) { + int64_t ret; + if (!left->ms.sym && !right->ms.sym) return right->level - left->level; + /* + * comparing symbol address alone is not enough since it's a + * relative address within a dso. + */ + ret = sort__dso_cmp(left, right); + if (ret != 0) + return ret; + return _sort__sym_cmp(left->ms.sym, right->ms.sym); } -- 1.7.11.7