Re: [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols

[Ravi Bangoria]

Hi Anton,

On Tuesday 22 November 2016 02:10 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> perf report (with TUI) exits with error when it finds a sample of zero
> length symbol(i.e. addr == sym->start == sym->end). Actually these are
> valid samples. Don't exit TUI and show report with such symbols.
>
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/8/189

This will solve 2nd issue.

3rd doesn't sound simple to fix. I tried to fix it by replacing pr_debug to
pr_err when addr is out of symbol address range. But error message will
get overwritten every time when subsequent pr_err gets executed.

Arnaldo, any suggestions?

-Ravi

> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> index aeb5a44..430d039 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> @@ -593,7 +593,8 @@ static int __symbol__inc_addr_samples(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map,
>
>  	pr_debug3("%s: addr=%#" PRIx64 "\n", __func__, map->unmap_ip(map, addr));
>
> -	if (addr < sym->start || addr >= sym->end) {
> +	if ((addr < sym->start || addr >= sym->end) &&
> +	    (addr != sym->end || sym->start != sym->end)) {
>  		pr_debug("%s(%d): ERANGE! sym->name=%s, start=%#" PRIx64 ", addr=%#" PRIx64 ", end=%#" PRIx64 "\n",
>  		       __func__, __LINE__, sym->name, sym->start, addr, sym->end);
>  		return -ERANGE;