It was just freezing instead of informing about the SEGV, fix it and
also print a backtrace, just like in the TUI mode and in 'perf trace'.
Tested by provoking a NULL deref when pressing 'z':
0.31% libc-2.20.so [.] malloc_consolidate
0.31% ld-2.20.so [.] _dl_relocate_object
0.28% cc1 [.] ht_lookup
0.28% cc1 [.] ira_init_register_move_cost
perf: Segmentation fault
Obtained 7 stack frames.
perf(dump_stack+0x32) [0x4d69f2]
perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x29) [0x4d6a89]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x34960) [0x7f5064333960]
perf() [0x438790]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x752a) [0x7f50663dd52a]
/lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7f50643ff22d]
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Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pewrpzqd29rgmhu2wkk7fhww@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
static void display_setup_sig(void)
{
- signal(SIGSEGV, display_sig);
- signal(SIGFPE, display_sig);
+ signal(SIGSEGV, sighandler_dump_stack);
+ signal(SIGFPE, sighandler_dump_stack);
signal(SIGINT, display_sig);
signal(SIGQUIT, display_sig);
signal(SIGTERM, display_sig);