perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage
authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:01:13 +0000 (22:31 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 20:59:38 +0000 (18:59 -0200)
commita4a03fc7ef89020baca4f19174e6a43767c6d78a
tree4b32c000a6b8767868293432bf1a6c748b391af8
parentbf32c9ebc9890764c7a9984e3a0c8a57a059753d
perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage

This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:

   -nan%           sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    packagekitd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%           bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.

With the below patch, for the same perf.data:

  73.08%             bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   8.97%      11-dhclient  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   6.41%             sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   3.85%        20-chrony  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   2.56%         sendmail  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.

Problem introduced in:

$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c

Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/evsel.c