Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:18:17 -0700 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] perf mem: perf mem report fails in TUI mode |
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On 12/9/14 9:15 PM, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hi, > > I was running a couple of tests with perf mem from tip.git and > found that perf mem -t load rep was failing only in TUI mode. > With --stdio, it works fine. I did a bit of investigation and found > out that the TUI mode is failing because some symbol (kernel) > is showing up with a huge (negative) size. I don't understand > the connection between the TUI vs. tty browser and symbols. > > To reproduce: > $ perf mem -t load rec my_test_program > $ perf mem -t load rep > $ perf mem -t load rep --stdio > > Debugging with TUI is a pain, so I stopped. > > I have a patch to improve perf mem a bit but I'd like to get this problem > fixed first. > > Maybe you have a idea of what's going on.
I usually avoid the TUI by not installing slang-devel.
But, trying out Linus' current tip (a0e4467726c - post 3.18) this seems to work fine: perf mem -t load rec ls perf mem -t load rep
But kernel version for the box is 3.16.6-203.fc20.x86_64.
David
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