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    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf symbols: Make sure --symfs usage includes the path separator · 972f393b
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Minchan reported that perf failed to load vmlinux if --symfs argument
doesn't end with '/' character.

Fix it by making sure that the '/' path separator is used when composing
pathnames with a --symfs provided directory name.

Reported-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8n4s6b6zvsez5ktanw006125@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      972f393b
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      perf evlist: Don't run workload if not told to · 5f1c4225
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

The perf_evlist__prepare_workload() method works by forking and then
waiting on a fd that must be written to to allow the workload to be
exec()ed.

But if the tool calling it fails to, say, set up the events with which
it wants to sample the workload for, it will not call
perf_evlist__start_workload(), but even in this case the workload ended
up running:

  [acme@zoo linux]$ trace /bin/echo workload ends up running, it should not...
  Couldn't mmap the events: Operation not permitted
  workload ends up running, it should not...
  [acme@zoo linux]$

So check if at least one byte was written before letting exec() be
called.

Now the expected behaviour:

  [acme@zoo linux]$ trace /bin/echo workload ends up running, it should not...
  Couldn't mmap the events: Operation not permitted
  [acme@zoo linux]$

Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-oh1ixo8m74rf295a05gfjw8b@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5f1c4225
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