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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:33:57 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929183357.GI3879@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140922070410.GA3108@krava.brq.redhat.com>

Em Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:10AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:07:38PM +0400, Alexander Yarygin wrote:
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > @@ -542,7 +542,13 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
> >  		return -ENOMEM;

> >  	new->file_offset = file_offset;
> > -	new->event = event;

> > +	if (s->copy_on_queue) {
> > +		new->event = malloc(event->header.size);
> > +		memcpy(new->event, event, event->header.size);

> we have memdup, and you need to check for allocation failure

Right.
 
> hum.. how about allocation limits?
 
> Now have report.queue-size to keep track and limit the ordered_events
> memory size. I think we should add this allocation size under this
> limit as well.

Yup.
 
> > +	} else
> > +		new->event = event;
> > +
> 
> also the copy_on_queue flag and the logic above feels more like
> it belongs to 'ordered_events' object to me

Agreed.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-29 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 17:07 [PATCH 0/2] perf kvm stat live: Copy events Alexander Yarygin
2014-09-18 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing Alexander Yarygin
2014-09-18 18:53   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-09-18 20:21     ` David Ahern
2014-09-18 20:29       ` David Ahern
2014-09-19  8:48         ` Alexander Yarygin
2014-09-19 14:21           ` David Ahern
2014-09-19 16:25             ` Alexander Yarygin
2014-09-22  7:04           ` Jiri Olsa
2014-09-22  7:04   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-09-29 18:33     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2014-09-18 17:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying Alexander Yarygin

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