While looking at the code again, I found that the detached siblings should call perf_event__header_size() for themselves in the loop since after moving them to the list the previous leader will have empty sibling_list. Something like below is needed IMHO:
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index dc96fee942a6..53ac21cc4012 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -1100,6 +1100,13 @@ static void perf_group_detach(struct perf_event *event) /* Inherit group flags from the previous leader */ sibling->group_flags = event->group_flags; + + /* + * The leader will forget about siblings from now on. + * So below loop to update header size of each sibling won't + * work for this case. Do it directly. + */ + perf_event__header_size(sibling); } out: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/