perf hists: Trim libtraceevent trace_seq buffers
When we use libtraceevent to format trace event fields into printable
strings to use in hist entries it is important to trim it from the
default 4 KiB it starts with to what is really used, to reduce the
memory footprint, so use realloc(seq.buffer, seq.len + 1) when returning
the seq.buffer formatted with the fields contents.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t3hl7uxmilrkigzmc90rlhk2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index 947d21f..3d3cb83 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -588,7 +588,11 @@
} else {
pevent_event_info(&seq, evsel->tp_format, &rec);
}
- return seq.buffer;
+ /*
+ * Trim the buffer, it starts at 4KB and we're not going to
+ * add anything more to this buffer.
+ */
+ return realloc(seq.buffer, seq.len + 1);
}
static int64_t