Re: [PATCH] perf: change samples type to unsigned long long

From: Shi, Yang
Date: Fri Oct 02 2015 - 17:26:00 EST


On 10/2/2015 12:10 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
Em Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 04:08:38PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
Em Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 02:49:43PM -0700, Yang Shi escreveu:
When run "perf record -e", the number of samples showed up is wrong on some
32 bit systems, i.e. powerpc and arm.

For example, run the below commands on 32 bit powerpc:

perf probe -x /lib/libc.so.6 malloc
perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -a ls
perf.data
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.036 MB perf.data (13829241621624967218 samples) ]

Actually, "perf script" just shows 21 samples. The number of samples is also
absurd since samples is long type, but it is printed as PRIu64.

Build test is run on x86-64, x86, aarch64, arm, mips, ppc and ppc64.

Sure?

AR /tmp/build/perf/libperf.a
builtin-record.c: In function â__cmd_recordâ:
builtin-record.c:689:12: error: comparison between signed and unsigned
integer expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]

You missed something important, I am fixing this and applying your
patch:

Thanks a lot. Yes, it was wrong, however, my compiler just throws a warning instead of an error. And, the warning was hidden by my OE build environment.

Regards,
Yang


diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 974065f8ce80..24ace2f318c1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv)

auxtrace_snapshot_enabled = 1;
for (;;) {
- int hits = rec->samples;
+ unsigned long long hits = rec->samples;

if (record__mmap_read_all(rec) < 0) {
auxtrace_snapshot_enabled = 0;


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/