557c3eadb7
Running "perf mem report" in TUI mode fails with ENOMEM message in
powerpc:
failed to process sample
Running with debug and verbose options points that issue is while
allocating memory for sample histograms.
The error path is:
symbol__inc_addr_samples() ->
__symbol__inc_addr_samples() ->
annotated_source__histogram()
symbol__inc_addr_samples() calls annotated_source__alloc_histograms ()
to allocate memory for sample histograms using calloc(). Here calloc()
fails since the size of symbol is huge. The size of a symbol is
calculated as difference between its start and end address.
Example histogram allocation that fails is:
sym->name is _end
sym->start is 0xc0000000027a0000
sym->end is 0xc008000003890000
symbol__size(sym) is 0x80000010f0000
In the above case, the difference between sym->start
(0xc0000000027a0000) and sym->end (0xc008000003890000) is huge.
This is same problem as in s390 and arm64 which are fixed in commits:
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README
Linux kernel
============
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.