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This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain
perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe:

   -nan%           sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    packagekitd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%    dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   -nan%           bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back
through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have
removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem
only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces
the initialization and it fixes the problem for me.

With the below patch, for the same perf.data:

  73.08%             bash  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   8.97%      11-dhclient  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   6.41%             sshd  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   3.85%        20-chrony  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork
   2.56%         sendmail  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_fork

This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284.

Problem introduced in:

$ git describe 640c03c
v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c

Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Naveen N. Rao authored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo committed Feb 6, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data));
data->cpu = data->pid = data->tid = -1;
data->stream_id = data->id = data->time = -1ULL;
data->period = 1;

if (event->header.type != PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE) {
if (!sample_id_all)
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