Re: [PATCH] perf report: delay sample_type checks in pipe mode

From: David Ahern
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 15:49:46 EST


On 6/11/12 1:48 PM, David Ahern wrote:
The pipeline:
perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b | perf report -g -i -

generates the warning:
Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?

The problem is that the header data is not written to the pipe, so the
sample_type has not been available when perf_report__setup_sample_type is
called. For pipe mode, record dumps the sample type as part of the
synthesized events stream -- perf_event__synthesize_attrs(). Handle this
be detecting pipe mode and not doing early sanity checks on sample_type.

Slightly different fix. Tim: can you re-test?

David


Signed-off-by: David Ahern<dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index ebcb3e2..9b3e9e9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -246,11 +246,12 @@ static int process_read_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
return 0;
}

+/* For pipe mode, sample_type is not currently set */
static int perf_report__setup_sample_type(struct perf_report *rep)
{
struct perf_session *self = rep->session;

- if (!(self->sample_type& PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) {
+ if (!self->fd_pipe&& !(self->sample_type& PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) {
if (sort__has_parent) {
ui__error("Selected --sort parent, but no "
"callchain data. Did you call "
@@ -273,7 +274,8 @@ static int perf_report__setup_sample_type(struct perf_report *rep)
}

if (sort__branch_mode == 1) {
- if (!(self->sample_type& PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)) {
+ if (!self->fd_pipe&&
+ !(self->sample_type& PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)) {
ui__error("Selected -b but no branch data. "
"Did you call perf record without -b?\n");
return -1;

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