linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols

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Message-Id: <5834082E.20903@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:26:14 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     anton@...ba.org, acme@...nel.org
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, chris.ryder@....com,
        mhiramat@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
        npiggin@...il.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.orgp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols



On Tuesday 22 November 2016 02:19 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Hi Anton,
>
> On Tuesday 22 November 2016 02:10 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>> perf report (with TUI) exits with error when it finds a sample of zero
>> length symbol(i.e. addr == sym->start == sym->end). Actually these are
>> valid samples. Don't exit TUI and show report with such symbols.
>>
>> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/8/189
> This will solve 2nd issue.
>
> 3rd doesn't sound simple to fix.

Sorry, I mean 1st doesn't sound ...

>  I tried to fix it by replacing pr_debug to
> pr_err when addr is out of symbol address range. But error message will
> get overwritten every time when subsequent pr_err gets executed.
>
> Arnaldo, any suggestions?
>
> -Ravi
>
>> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> index aeb5a44..430d039 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>> @@ -593,7 +593,8 @@ static int __symbol__inc_addr_samples(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map,
>>
>>  	pr_debug3("%s: addr=%#" PRIx64 "\n", __func__, map->unmap_ip(map, addr));
>>
>> -	if (addr < sym->start || addr >= sym->end) {
>> +	if ((addr < sym->start || addr >= sym->end) &&
>> +	    (addr != sym->end || sym->start != sym->end)) {
>>  		pr_debug("%s(%d): ERANGE! sym->name=%s, start=%#" PRIx64 ", addr=%#" PRIx64 ", end=%#" PRIx64 "\n",
>>  		       __func__, __LINE__, sym->name, sym->start, addr, sym->end);
>>  		return -ERANGE;