[PATCH] perf/stat: fix bug in handling events in error state

[David Carrillo-Cisneros]

From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>

(This is a patch has been sitting in the Intel CQM/CMT driver series
 for a while, despite not depend on it. Sending it now independently
 since the series is being discarded.)

When an event is in error state, read() returns 0
instead of sizeof() buffer. In certain modes, such
as interval printing, ignoring the 0 return value
may cause bogus count deltas to be computed and
thus invalid results printed.

This patch fixes this problem by modifying read_counters()
to mark the event as not scaled (scaled = -1) to force
the printout routine to show <NOT COUNTED>.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 12 +++++++++---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c   |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 688dea7cb08f..c3c4b4990f3c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -310,8 +310,12 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
 			struct perf_counts_values *count;
 
 			count = perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread);
-			if (perf_evsel__read(counter, cpu, thread, count))
+			if (perf_evsel__read(counter, cpu, thread, count)) {
+				counter->counts->scaled = -1;
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread)->ena = 0;
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread)->run = 0;
 				return -1;
+			}
 
 			if (STAT_RECORD) {
 				if (perf_evsel__write_stat_event(counter, cpu, thread, count)) {
@@ -336,12 +340,14 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
 static void read_counters(void)
 {
 	struct perf_evsel *counter;
+	int ret;
 
 	evlist__for_each_entry(evsel_list, counter) {
-		if (read_counter(counter))
+		ret = read_counter(counter);
+		if (ret)
 			pr_debug("failed to read counter %s\n", counter->name);
 
-		if (perf_stat_process_counter(&stat_config, counter))
+		if (ret == 0 && perf_stat_process_counter(&stat_config, counter))
 			pr_warning("failed to process counter %s\n", counter->name);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 8bc271141d9d..d54efb5ee8bc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu, int thread,
 	if (FD(evsel, cpu, thread) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), count, sizeof(*count)) < 0)
+	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), count, sizeof(*count)) <= 0)
 		return -errno;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ int __perf_evsel__read_on_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 	if (evsel->counts == NULL && perf_evsel__alloc_counts(evsel, cpu + 1, thread + 1) < 0)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), &count, nv * sizeof(u64)) < 0)
+	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), &count, nv * sizeof(u64)) <= 0)
 		return -errno;
 
 	perf_evsel__compute_deltas(evsel, cpu, thread, &count);
-- 
2.12.2.715.g7642488e1d-goog