Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Fix "robust" test of do_generate_dynamic_list_file

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Aug 13 2019 - 17:35:14 EST


Em Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 05:21:12PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 13:01:50 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [
> > Not sure why I wasn't Cc'd on the original patch (or the one before that)
> > but I guess I need to add tools/lib/traceevent under MAINTAINERs for
> > perhaps tracing?
> > ]
> >
>
> Ping?

Will apply later today, thanks,

- Arnaldo

> -- Steve
>
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile had a test added to it to detect a failure
> > of the "nm" when making the dynamic list file (whatever that is). The
> > problem is that the test sorts the values "U W w" and some versions of sort
> > will place "w" ahead of "W" (even though it has a higher ASCII value, and
> > break the test.
> >
> > Add 'tr "w" "W"' to merge the two and not worry about the ordering.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: 6467753d61399 ("tools lib traceevent: Robustify do_generate_dynamic_list_file")
> > Reported-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> > index 3292c290654f..8352d53dcb5a 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> > @@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ endef
> >
> > define do_generate_dynamic_list_file
> > symbol_type=`$(NM) -u -D $1 | awk 'NF>1 {print $$1}' | \
> > - xargs echo "U W w" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u | xargs echo`;\
> > - if [ "$$symbol_type" = "U W w" ];then \
> > + xargs echo "U w W" | tr 'w ' 'W\n' | sort -u | xargs echo`;\
> > + if [ "$$symbol_type" = "U W" ];then \
> > (echo '{'; \
> > $(NM) -u -D $1 | awk 'NF>1 {print "\t"$$2";"}' | sort -u;\
> > echo '};'; \

--

- Arnaldo