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authorNelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>2011-12-19 08:39:32 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-12-23 16:53:58 -0200
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parent18e6093904abfd51671ff5846c2fdaba9ebbf21b (diff)
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perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's from the kernel. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.com Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com> [ committer note: Made it work after 50a682c ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 963d63d..fa18370 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -563,6 +563,8 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, unsigned int pages,
/* 512 kiB: default amount of unprivileged mlocked memory */
if (pages == UINT_MAX)
pages = (512 * 1024) / page_size;
+ else if (!is_power_of_2(pages))
+ return -EINVAL;
mask = pages * page_size - 1;
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