linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Exit recording if events have non matching sample type

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Message-ID: <4E84F75B.3050105@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:55:23 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CC:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Exit recording if events have non matching
 sample type



On 09/29/2011 04:05 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
>> The event processing relies on all events having the same sample_type.
>>
>> This is being checked when the session is being opened read only.
>> It also needs to be checked when we do record, since events could be
>> read during processing build IDs at the end of the record command.
>>
>> If we process events with different sample_type the processing might
>> skip some events or hang.
>>
>> Following command hangs on my setup:
>>   ./perf record -o perf.data -e ext4:ext4_mb_new_group_pa \
>>    -e LLC-loads -- date '+%F'
>>
>> because hardware and tracepoint events have different sample type.
>>
>> With the patch applied the record command displays
>> "Non matching sample_type" message and exits.
> 
> That is way too cryptic :-\
> 
> What is that makes the sample type not match in this case? Can we make
> it match instead?
> 
> This is something to be properly fixed by _allowing_ non matching sample
> types, the evsel/evlist abstractions are getting we close but not there
> yet, multiple files in a perf.data/ directory are needed.

>From what I can see sample_type has to be the same for all samples:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/15/6


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