mirrors
/
linux-stable
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

perf tools: Fix use of wrong event when processing exit events 

In a couple of cases the 'comm' member of 'union event' has been used
instead of the correct member ('fork') when processing exit events.

In the cases where it has been used incorrectly, only the 'pid' and
'tid' are affected.  The 'pid' value would be correct anyway because it
is in the same position in 'comm' and 'fork' events, but the 'tid' would
have been incorrectly assigned from 'ppid'.

However, for exit events, the kernel puts the current task in the 'ppid'
and 'ttid' which is the same as the exiting task.  That is 'ppid' ==
'pid' and if the task is not multi-threaded, 'pid' == 'tid' i.e. the
data goes wrong only when tracing multi-threaded programs.

It is hard to find an example of how this would produce an error in
practice.  There are 3 occurences of the fix:

1. perf script is only affected if !sample_id_all which only happens on
  old kernels.

2. intel_pt is only affected when decoding without timestamps
   and would probably still decode correctly - the exit event is
   only used to flush out data which anyway gets flushed at the
   end of the session

3. intel_bts also uses the exit event to flush data which
   would probably not cause errors as it would get flushed at
   the end of the session instead

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439888825-27708-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Adrian Hunter 2015-08-18 12:07:05 +03:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 5ad4da4302
commit 53ff6bc37b
3 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

4
tools/perf/builtin-script.c
View File

@ -768,8 +768,8 @@ static int process_exit_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
if (!evsel->attr.sample_id_all) {
sample->cpu = 0;
sample->time = 0;
sample->tid = event->comm.tid;
sample->pid = event->comm.pid;
sample->tid = event->fork.tid;
sample->pid = event->fork.pid;
}
print_sample_start(sample, thread, evsel);
perf_event__fprintf(event, stdout);

2
tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c
View File

@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ static int intel_bts_process_event(struct perf_session *session,
if (err)
return err;
if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_EXIT) {
err = intel_bts_process_tid_exit(bts, event->comm.tid);
err = intel_bts_process_tid_exit(bts, event->fork.tid);
if (err)
return err;
}

2
tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
View File

@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ static int intel_pt_process_event(struct perf_session *session,
if (pt->timeless_decoding) {
if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_EXIT) {
err = intel_pt_process_timeless_queues(pt,
event->comm.tid,
event->fork.tid,
sample->time);
}
} else if (timestamp) {