perf tools: Fixup mmap event consumption
The tail position of the event buffer should only be modified after
actually use that event.
If not the event buffer could be invalid before use, and segment fault
occurs when invoking perf top -G.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382600613-32177-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com
[ Simplified the logic using exit gotos and renamed write_tail method to mmap_consume ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 880d713..206d093 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
union perf_event *perf_evlist__mmap_read(struct perf_evlist *self, int idx);
+void perf_evlist__mmap_consume(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int idx);
+
int perf_evlist__open(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
void perf_evlist__close(struct perf_evlist *evlist);