linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] perf record: Force enable --timestamp-filename when --switch-output is provided

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Message-ID: <20160420122944.GC18012@krava.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:29:44 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc:	acme@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pi3orama@....com,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>, He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] perf record: Force enable --timestamp-filename
 when --switch-output is provided

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 04:21:17PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2016/4/20 15:59, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:55:29PM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> >>Without this patch, the last output doesn't have timestamp appended if
> >>--timestamp-filename is not explicitly provided. For example:
> >>
> >>   # perf record -a --switch-output &
> >>   [1] 11224
> >>   # kill -s SIGUSR2 11224
> >>   [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
> >>   # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622372823 ]
> >>
> >>   # fg
> >>   perf record -a --switch-output
> >>   ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> >>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.027 MB perf.data (540 samples) ]
> >>
> >>   # ls -l
> >>   total 836
> >>   -rw------- 1 root root  33256 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data   <---- *Odd*
> >>   -rw------- 1 root root 817156 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data.2015122622372823
> >I'm getting this:
> >
> >[root@...va perf]# ./perf record -a --switch-output &
> >[root@...va perf]# kill -s SIGUSR2 18974
> >[ perf record: dump data: Woken up 4 times ]
> >[ perf record: Dump perf.data.2016042009574314 ]
> >
> >[root@...va perf]# ./perf report -i perf.data.2016042009574314
> >perf: Segmentation fault
> >-------- backtrace --------
> >./perf[0x552b0b]
> >/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x34a50)[0x7f711b434a50]
> >/lib64/libc.so.6(strlen+0x2a)[0x7f711b48b33a]
> >./perf(perf_hpp__reset_sort_width+0x4f)[0x4e9b1f]
> >./perf[0x54b113]
> >./perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x91)[0x551361]
> >./perf(cmd_report+0x1a34)[0x434b44]
> >./perf[0x485681]
> >./perf(main+0x672)[0x424382]
> >/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7f711b420700]
> >./perf(_start+0x29)[0x4244a9]
> >[0x0]
> 
> Can't reproduce... Can you get reproduce problem without this patch (3/6)?
> 
> My local tree is based on newest perf/core (commit ccd62a8 "perf trace:
> Fix build when DWARF unwind isn't available"). Could you please check your
> source?

you're right.. I rebuilt on latest Arnaldo's perf/core and can't reproduce again

jirka