linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf report: Fix regression when decoding intelPT traces

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:28:15 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf report: Fix regression when decoding intelPT traces

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:57:54PM -0700, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Commit (93d10af26bb7 perf tools: Optimize sample parsing for ordered
> events) breaks intelPT trace decoding by invariably returning an error if
> the event type isn't a PERF_SAMPLE_TIME.

right, thanks for catchng that

> 
> With this patch the timestamp is initialised and processing is allowed to
> continue even if an error is returned by function
> perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/session.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> index 54e30f1bcbd7..20cdcf14232b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> @@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ static s64 perf_session__process_event(struct perf_session *session,
>  
>  		ret = perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp(evlist, event, &timestamp);
>  		if (ret)
> -			return ret;
> +			timestamp = -1ULL;

we still have some -EFAULT error codes in there that we
want to catch.. should it be more like in below?

thanks,
jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 54e30f1bcbd7..9498aa0efe39 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1508,10 +1508,10 @@ static s64 perf_session__process_event(struct perf_session *session,
 		return perf_session__process_user_event(session, event, file_offset);
 
 	if (tool->ordered_events) {
-		u64 timestamp;
+		u64 timestamp = -1ULL
 
 		ret = perf_evlist__parse_sample_timestamp(evlist, event, &timestamp);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret != -1)
 			return ret;
 
 		ret = perf_session__queue_event(session, event, timestamp, file_offset);