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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Aug 19 2019 - 10:39:56 EST


Em Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 01:01:50PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> [
> 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?
> ]
>
> 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.

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

> 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 '};'; \
> --
> 2.20.1

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- Arnaldo