An optimized build such as:
make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O3
will turn the dereference operation into a ud2 instruction, raising a
SIGILL rather than a SIGSEGV. Use raise(..) for correctness and clarity.
Similar issues were addressed in Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo's patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/8/1234
Committer testing:
Before:
[root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
55: perf hooks : Ok
[root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
55: perf hooks :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 17092
SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf hooks: Ok
[root@quaco ~]#
After:
[root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
55: perf hooks : Ok
[root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
55: perf hooks :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 17909
SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf hooks: Ok
[root@quaco ~]#
Fixes: a074865e60 ("perf tools: Introduce perf hooks")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925195924.152834-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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