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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:24:57 +0530
From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...e.hu,
acme@...hat.com, robert.richter@....com, ming.m.lin@...el.com,
andi@...stfloor.org, asharma@...com, ravitillo@....gov,
vweaver1@...s.utk.edu, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/18] perf: make perf able to read file from older
ABIs
On Saturday 28 January 2012 02:26 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data
> files. Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE
> signature.
>
> For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but
> without comparing their header->attr_size with the
> tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use
> a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era.
>
> We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find
> a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file format".
> This is also done for the pipe-mode file format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index 1fb365d..a15f451 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -1630,35 +1630,102 @@ int perf_header__process_sections(struct perf_header *header, int fd,
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int check_magic_endian(u64 *magic, struct perf_file_header *header,
> - struct perf_header *ph)
> +static const int attr_file_abi_sizes[] = {
> + [0] = PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER0,
> + [1] = PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER1,
> + 0,
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * In the legacy file format, the magic number is not used to encode endianness.
> + * hdr_sz was used to encode endianness. But given that hdr_sz can vary based
> + * on ABI revisions, we need to try all combinations for all endianness to
> + * detect the endianness.
> + */
> +static int try_all_file_abis(uint64_t hdr_sz, struct perf_header *ph)
> {
> - int ret;
> + uint64_t ref_size, attr_size;
> + int i;
>
> - /* check for legacy format */
> - ret = memcmp(magic, __perf_magic1, sizeof(*magic));
> - if (ret == 0) {
> - pr_debug("legacy perf.data format\n");
> - if (!header)
> - return -1;
> + for (i = 0 ; attr_file_abi_sizes[i]; i++) {
> + ref_size = attr_file_abi_sizes[i]
> + + sizeof(struct perf_file_section);
> + if (hdr_sz != ref_size) {
> + attr_size = bswap_64(hdr_sz);
> + if (attr_size != ref_size)
> + continue;
>
> - if (header->attr_size != sizeof(struct perf_file_attr)) {
> - u64 attr_size = bswap_64(header->attr_size);
> + ph->needs_swap = true;
> + }
> + pr_debug("ABI%d perf.data file detected, need_swap=%d\n",
> + i,
> + ph->needs_swap);
> + return 0;
> + }
> + /* could not determine endianness */
> + return -1;
> +}
>
> - if (attr_size != sizeof(struct perf_file_attr))
> - return -1;
> +#define PERF_PIPE_HDR_VER0 16
> +
> +static const size_t attr_pipe_abi_sizes[] = {
> + [0] = PERF_PIPE_HDR_VER0,
> + 0,
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * In the legacy pipe format, there is an implicit assumption that endiannesss
> + * between host recording the samples, and host parsing the samples is the
> + * same. This is not always the case given that the pipe output may always be
> + * redirected into a file and analyzed on a different machine with possibly a
> + * different endianness and perf_event ABI revsions in the perf tool itself.
> + */
> +static int try_all_pipe_abis(uint64_t hdr_sz, struct perf_header *ph)
> +{
> + uint64_t ref_size;
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0 ; attr_pipe_abi_sizes[i]; i++) {
> + if (hdr_sz != attr_pipe_abi_sizes[i]) {
> + u64 attr_size = bswap_64(hdr_sz);
> +
> + if (attr_size != ref_size)
'ref_size' never got a value here but being checked against. This statement hits a compilation
failure.
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
util/header.c: In function ‘try_all_pipe_abis’:
util/header.c:1692: error: ‘ref_size’ may be used uninitialized in this function
make: *** [util/header.o] Error 1
> + continue;
>
> ph->needs_swap = true;
> }
> + pr_debug("Pipe ABI%d perf.data file detected\n", i);
> return 0;
> }
> + return -1;
> +}
>
> - /* check magic number with same endianness */
> - if (*magic == __perf_magic2)
> +static int check_magic_endian(u64 magic, uint64_t hdr_sz,
> + bool is_pipe, struct perf_header *ph)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* check for legacy format */
> + ret = memcmp(&magic, __perf_magic1, sizeof(magic));
> + if (ret == 0) {
> + pr_debug("legacy perf.data format\n");
> + if (is_pipe)
> + return try_all_pipe_abis(hdr_sz, ph);
> +
> + return try_all_file_abis(hdr_sz, ph);
> + }
> + /*
> + * the new magic number serves two purposes:
> + * - unique number to identify actual perf.data files
> + * - encode endianness of file
> + */
> +
> + /* check magic number with one endianness */
> + if (magic == __perf_magic2)
> return 0;
>
> - /* check magic number but opposite endianness */
> - if (*magic != __perf_magic2_sw)
> + /* check magic number with opposite endianness */
> + if (magic != __perf_magic2_sw)
> return -1;
>
> ph->needs_swap = true;
> @@ -1677,8 +1744,11 @@ int perf_file_header__read(struct perf_file_header *header,
> if (ret <= 0)
> return -1;
>
> - if (check_magic_endian(&header->magic, header, ph) < 0)
> + if (check_magic_endian(header->magic,
> + header->attr_size, false, ph) < 0) {
> + pr_debug("magic/endian check failed\n");
> return -1;
> + }
>
> if (ph->needs_swap) {
> mem_bswap_64(header, offsetof(struct perf_file_header,
> @@ -1924,21 +1994,17 @@ static int perf_file_header__read_pipe(struct perf_pipe_file_header *header,
> if (ret <= 0)
> return -1;
>
> - if (check_magic_endian(&header->magic, NULL, ph) < 0)
> + if (check_magic_endian(header->magic, header->size, true, ph) < 0) {
> + pr_debug("endian/magic failed\n");
> return -1;
> + }
> +
> + if (ph->needs_swap)
> + header->size = bswap_64(header->size);
>
> if (repipe && do_write(STDOUT_FILENO, header, sizeof(*header)) < 0)
> return -1;
>
> - if (header->size != sizeof(*header)) {
> - u64 size = bswap_64(header->size);
> -
> - if (size != sizeof(*header))
> - return -1;
> -
> - ph->needs_swap = true;
> - }
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -1975,6 +2041,10 @@ static int read_attr(int fd, struct perf_header *ph,
>
> /* on file perf_event_attr size */
> sz = attr->size;
> + if (sz != our_sz)
> + pr_debug("on file attr=%zu vs. %zu bytes,"
> + " ignoring extra fields\n", sz, our_sz);
> +
> if (ph->needs_swap)
> sz = bswap_32(sz);
>
--
Anshuman Khandual
Linux Technology Centre
IBM Systems and Technology Group
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