Hi Vineet, On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 07:22:14PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: > When running perf on ARC (uClibc based userspace), ran into this issue > ------------->8---------------- > [ARCLinux]$ ./perf record ls > bin etc perf sys > debug init perf.data tmp > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (~24 samples) ] > > [ARCLinux]$ ./perf report > incompatible file format (rerun with -v to learn more) > ------------->8---------------- > > The problem happens in the following call stack when zalloc is called > with size zero > > glibc default / uClibc with MALLOC_GLIBC_COMPAT are OK, but not if that > config option is not enabled. > > cmd_report > perf_session__new > perf_session__open > perf_session__read_header > read_attr(fd, header, &f_attr) > nr_ids = f_attr.ids.size / sizeof(u64); <-- 0 > perf_evsel__alloc_id(vsel, 1, nr_ids) > zalloc(ncpus * nthreads * sizeof(u64)) <-- 0 > > header.c: read_attr() > > (gdb) p *f_attr > $17 = { > attr = { > type = 0, > size = 96, > config = 0, > { > sample_period = 4000, > sample_freq = 4000 > }, > ... > ids = { > offset = 104, > size = 0 <------ > } > } Hmm.. okay. I think we don't need to allocate the id arrays when size is 0. So perf_event__process_attr() will have the same problem IMHO. How about this? diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index 1e90c8557ede..1d826d63bc20 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -797,6 +797,9 @@ int perf_evsel__enable(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads) int perf_evsel__alloc_id(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads) { + if (ncpus == 0 || nthreads == 0) + return 0; + if (evsel->system_wide) nthreads = 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html