linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf report: delay sample

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:48:41 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	acme@...stprotocols.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	paulus@...ba.org, tglx@...utronix.de, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf report: delay sample_type checks in pipe mode

The pipeline:
  perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b  | perf report  -g -i -

generates the warning:
  Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?

The problem is that the header data is not written to the pipe, so the
sample_type has not been available when perf_report__setup_sample_type is
called. For pipe mode, record dumps the sample type as part of the
synthesized events stream -- perf_event__synthesize_attrs(). Handle this
be detecting pipe mode and not doing early sanity checks on sample_type.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index ebcb3e2..9b3e9e9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -246,11 +246,12 @@ static int process_read_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* For pipe mode, sample_type is not currently set */
 static int perf_report__setup_sample_type(struct perf_report *rep)
 {
 	struct perf_session *self = rep->session;
 
-	if (!(self->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) {
+	if (!self->fd_pipe && !(self->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN)) {
 		if (sort__has_parent) {
 			ui__error("Selected --sort parent, but no "
 				    "callchain data. Did you call "
@@ -273,7 +274,8 @@ static int perf_report__setup_sample_type(struct perf_report *rep)
 	}
 
 	if (sort__branch_mode == 1) {
-		if (!(self->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)) {
+		if (!self->fd_pipe &&
+		    !(self->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK)) {
 			ui__error("Selected -b but no branch data. "
 				  "Did you call perf record without -b?\n");
 			return -1;
-- 
1.7.10.1

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