[PATCH 3/9] perf intel-pt: Fix error recovery from missing TIP packet

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Wed Mar 07 2018 - 09:03:31 EST


When a TIP packet is expected but there is a different packet, it is an
error. However the unexpected packet might be something important like a
TSC packet, so after the error, it is necessary to continue from there,
rather than the next packet. That is achieved by setting pkt_step to zero.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
index 00f25f4b5f48..5e4d0bbafc8b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
@@ -1616,6 +1616,7 @@ static int intel_pt_walk_fup_tip(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder)
case INTEL_PT_PWRX:
intel_pt_log("ERROR: Missing TIP after FUP\n");
decoder->pkt_state = INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR3;
+ decoder->pkt_step = 0;
return -ENOENT;

case INTEL_PT_OVF:
--
1.9.1