[tip:perf/core] perf trace: Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints

From: tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sun Mar 22 2015 - 06:17:09 EST


Commit-ID: f208bd8df08d0659ecd9e09e992c79aab26cddfa
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f208bd8df08d0659ecd9e09e992c79aab26cddfa
Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:46:53 -0300
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:53:36 -0300

perf trace: Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints

Currently the code skips the first field with the expectation that it is 'nr'.
But older kernels do not have the 'nr' field:

field:int nr; offset:8; size:4; signed:1;

Change perf-trace to drop the field if it exists after parsing the format file.

This fixes the off-by-one problem with older kernels (e.g., RHEL6). e.g,
perf-trace shows this for write:

1.515 ( 0.006 ms): dd/4245 write(buf: 2</dev/pts/0>, count: 140733837536224 ) = 26

where 2 is really the fd, the huge number is really the buf address, etc. With
this patch you get the more appropriate:

1.813 ( 0.003 ms): dd/6330 write(fd: 2</dev/pts/0>, buf: 0x7fff22fc81f0, count: 25) = 25

Based-on-a-patch-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gvpdave4u2yq2jnzbcdznpvf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 6af6bce..001c6ae 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -1135,6 +1135,8 @@ static struct syscall_fmt *syscall_fmt__find(const char *name)

struct syscall {
struct event_format *tp_format;
+ int nr_args;
+ struct format_field *args;
const char *name;
bool filtered;
bool is_exit;
@@ -1442,14 +1444,14 @@ static int syscall__set_arg_fmts(struct syscall *sc)
struct format_field *field;
int idx = 0;

- sc->arg_scnprintf = calloc(sc->tp_format->format.nr_fields - 1, sizeof(void *));
+ sc->arg_scnprintf = calloc(sc->nr_args, sizeof(void *));
if (sc->arg_scnprintf == NULL)
return -1;

if (sc->fmt)
sc->arg_parm = sc->fmt->arg_parm;

- for (field = sc->tp_format->format.fields->next; field; field = field->next) {
+ for (field = sc->args; field; field = field->next) {
if (sc->fmt && sc->fmt->arg_scnprintf[idx])
sc->arg_scnprintf[idx] = sc->fmt->arg_scnprintf[idx];
else if (field->flags & FIELD_IS_POINTER)
@@ -1515,6 +1517,14 @@ static int trace__read_syscall_info(struct trace *trace, int id)
if (sc->tp_format == NULL)
return -1;

+ sc->args = sc->tp_format->format.fields;
+ sc->nr_args = sc->tp_format->format.nr_fields;
+ /* drop nr field - not relevant here; does not exist on older kernels */
+ if (sc->args && strcmp(sc->args->name, "nr") == 0) {
+ sc->args = sc->args->next;
+ --sc->nr_args;
+ }
+
sc->is_exit = !strcmp(name, "exit_group") || !strcmp(name, "exit");

return syscall__set_arg_fmts(sc);
@@ -1537,7 +1547,7 @@ static size_t syscall__scnprintf_args(struct syscall *sc, char *bf, size_t size,
unsigned char *p;
unsigned long val;

- if (sc->tp_format != NULL) {
+ if (sc->args != NULL) {
struct format_field *field;
u8 bit = 1;
struct syscall_arg arg = {
@@ -1547,7 +1557,7 @@ static size_t syscall__scnprintf_args(struct syscall *sc, char *bf, size_t size,
.thread = thread,
};

- for (field = sc->tp_format->format.fields->next; field;
+ for (field = sc->args; field;
field = field->next, ++arg.idx, bit <<= 1) {
if (arg.mask & bit)
continue;
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