perf_events: Fix unincremented buffer base on partial copy
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 27 May 2010 19:34:58 +0000 (21:34 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 31 May 2010 06:46:10 +0000 (08:46 +0200)
commit74048f895fa8cbf8119b4999f1f44881a825f954
tree16c38467e68c730d459dd64cee7f749f1745c782
parent90151c35b19633e0cab5a6c80f1ba4a51e7c913b
perf_events: Fix unincremented buffer base on partial copy

If a sample size crosses to the next page boundary, the copy
will be made in more than one step. However we forget to advance
the source offset for the next copy, leading to unexpected double
copies that completely mess up the traces.

This fixes various kinds of bad traces that have irrelevant
data inside, as an example:

geany-4979  [001]  5758.077775: sched_switch: prev_comm=! prev_pid=121
prev_prio=0 prev_state=S|D|Z|X|x ==> next_comm= next_pid=7497072
next_prio=0

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1274988898-5639-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/perf_event.c