Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: cs-etm: Fix corrupt inject files when only last branch option is enabled

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Feb 15 2022 - 10:07:31 EST


Em Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:05:16AM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 08:06:20PM +0000, James Clark wrote:
> > Perf inject with Coresight data generates files that cannot be opened
> > when only the last branch option is specified:
> >
> > perf inject -i perf.data --itrace=l -o inject.data
> > perf script -i inject.data
> > 0x33faa8 [0x8]: failed to process type: 9 [Bad address]
> >
> > This is because cs_etm__synth_instruction_sample() is called even when
> > the sample type for instructions hasn't been setup. Last branch records
> > are attached to instruction samples so it doesn't make sense to generate
> > them when --itrace=i isn't specified anyway.
> >
> > This change disables all calls of cs_etm__synth_instruction_sample()
> > unless --itrace=i is specified, resulting in a file with no samples if
> > only --itrace=l is provided, rather than a bad file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo


> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > index 796a065a500e..8b95fb3c4d7b 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > @@ -1553,6 +1553,7 @@ static int cs_etm__flush(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq,
> > goto swap_packet;
> >
> > if (etmq->etm->synth_opts.last_branch &&
> > + etmq->etm->synth_opts.instructions &&
> > tidq->prev_packet->sample_type == CS_ETM_RANGE) {
> > u64 addr;
> >
> > @@ -1610,6 +1611,7 @@ static int cs_etm__end_block(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq,
> > * the trace.
> > */
> > if (etmq->etm->synth_opts.last_branch &&
> > + etmq->etm->synth_opts.instructions &&
> > tidq->prev_packet->sample_type == CS_ETM_RANGE) {
> > u64 addr;
> >
> > --
> > 2.28.0
> >

--

- Arnaldo