Em Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:46:11PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:00:41AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > > > tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 10 ++++++----
> > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
> > > > index e69f44941aad..f2e9d2b1b913 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
> > > > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
> > > > @@ -595,8 +595,8 @@ tot_hitm_cmp(struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt __maybe_unused,
> > > > {
> > > > struct c2c_hist_entry *c2c_left;
> > > > struct c2c_hist_entry *c2c_right;
> > > > - unsigned int tot_hitm_left;
> > > > - unsigned int tot_hitm_right;
> > > > + uint64_t tot_hitm_left;
> > > > + uint64_t tot_hitm_right;
> > >
> > > that change looks right, but I can't see how that could
> > > happened because of change in Fixes: tag
> > >
> > > was the return statement of this function:
> > >
> > > return tot_hitm_left - tot_hitm_right;
> > >
> > > considered to be 'unsigned int' and then converted to int64_t,
> > > which would treat negative 'unsigned int' as big positive 'int64_t'?
> >
> > Correct. So e.g. when comparing 1 and 2 tot_hitm, we'd get (int64_t)
> > UINT_MAX as a result, which is obviously wrong. However, due to
> > hist_entry__sort() returning int at the time, this was masked, as the
> > int64_t was cast to int. Thereby again yielding a negative number for
> > the comparisons of hist_entry__sort()'s result. After
> > hist_entry__sort() was fixed however, there never could be negative
> > return values (but 0's are possible) of hist_entry__sort() for c2c.
>
> I see.. ok
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied.
- Arnaldo
