Re: [PATCH v4 05/18] perf: add minimal support for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Mon Jan 07 2013 - 08:10:07 EST


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 04:41:35PM +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> Ensure we grab the weight from raw sample struct
>> and that we can dump it via perf report -D.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/util/event.h | 1 +
>> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++++
>> tools/perf/util/session.c | 3 +++
>> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
>> index 0d573ff..cf52977 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
>> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct perf_sample {
>> u64 period;
>> u32 cpu;
>> u32 raw_size;
>> + u64 weight;
>> void *raw_data;
>> struct ip_callchain *callchain;
>> struct branch_stack *branch_stack;
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
>> index 1b16dd1..4374c07 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
>> @@ -1058,6 +1058,11 @@ int perf_evsel__parse_sample(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> + if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT) {
>> + data->weight= *array;
>> + array++;
>> + }
>> +
>
> this bit should be placed right after PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD (where
> you placed it in kernel path), otherwise you get wrong data
>

Thought some more about this. I think this new WEIGHT sample type is
in the wrong place in Andi's patch.
It's new, it should be put at the end of perf_output_sample(). That's
necessary to ensure older versions
of perf (without the knowledge about WEIGHT) can still decode
PERF_SAMPLE_READ in case
PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT is present in the perf.data file.

I will update his patch to reflect this change.
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