Re: perf record: regression with latest PT fix

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Mon Dec 18 2017 - 10:23:58 EST


On 18 December 2017 at 07:25, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/12/17 15:28, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 05:03:53AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> The following patch:
>>>
>>> f785657b0fbe perf report: Fix regression when decoding Intel-PT traces
>>
>> Cc'ing Adrian in case he missed the patch.
>
> Doesn't seem to have much to do with Intel PT, but the patch logic looks wrong:
>
> ret = perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp(evlist, event, &timestamp);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret != -1)
> return ret;
>
> Shouldn't that be:
>
> ret = perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp(evlist, event, &timestamp);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret && ret != -1)
> return ret;

Of course!

Ingo, how do you want to proceed? Should I send a V3?

>
>
>>
>>> is breaking perf report for me. I get no samples reported from perf report
>>> when running simple perf record commands:
>>>
>>> $ perf record -e cycles noploop
>>>
>>> Reverting the patch fixes the problem.
>>>
>>> Are you seeing this as well?
>>
>