linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Robustify do_generate_dynamic_list

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Message-ID: <20170206174516.GA24988@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:45:16 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Robustify
 do_generate_dynamic_list_file

Em Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:38:02PM -0800, David Carrillo-Cisneros escreveu:
> The dynamic-list-file used to export dynamic symbols introduced in
> 
> commit e3d09ec8126f ("tools lib traceevent: Export dynamic symbols
> used by traceevent plugins")
> 
> is generated without any sort of error checking.
> 
> I experienced problems due to an old version of nm (v 0.158) that outputs
> in a format distinct from the assumed by the script.
> 
> Robustify this by enforcing that the second column in the symbol output
> is an "U" (Undefined) as it should be since we are calling $(NM) -u ...
> and print an error message otherwise.

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>
> ---
>  tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> index 2616c66e10c1..1b6e146429d0 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile
> @@ -257,10 +257,15 @@ define do_install_plugins
>  endef
>  
>  define do_generate_dynamic_list_file
> -	(echo '{';							\
> -	$(NM) -u -D $1 | awk 'NF>1 {print "\t"$$2";"}' | sort -u;	\
> -	echo '};';							\
> -	) > $2
> +	symbol_type=`$(NM) -u -D $1 | awk 'NF>1 {print $$1}' | sort -u`;\
> +	if [ "$$symbol_type" == "U" ];then				\
> +		(echo '{';						\
> +		$(NM) -u -D $1 | awk 'NF>1 {print "\t"$$2";"}' | sort -u;\
> +		echo '};';						\
> +		) > $2;							\
> +	else								\
> +		(echo Either missing one of [$1] or bad version of $(NM)) 1>&2;\
> +	fi
>  endef
>  
>  install_lib: all_cmd install_plugins
> -- 
> 2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog