linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/7] perf: cs-etm: Fix timeless decode mode detection

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Message-Id: <20230424134748.228137-2-james.clark@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:47:41 +0100
From:   James Clark <james.clark@....com>
To:     linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        shy828301@...il.com
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        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 1/7] perf: cs-etm: Fix timeless decode mode detection

In this context, timeless refers to the trace data rather than the perf
event data. But when detecting whether there are timestamps in the trace
data or not, the presence of a timestamp flag on any perf event is used.

Since commit f42c0ce573df ("perf record: Always get text_poke events
with --kcore option") timestamps were added to a tracking event when
--kcore is used which breaks this detection mechanism. Fix it by
detecting if trace timestamps exist by looking at the ETM config flags.
This would have always been a more accurate way of doing it anyway.

This fixes the following error message when using --kcore with
Coresight:

  $ perf record --kcore -e cs_etm// --per-thread
  $ perf report
  The perf.data/data data has no samples!

Fixes: f42c0ce573df ("perf record: Always get text_poke events with --kcore option")
Reported-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHbLzkrJQTrYBtPkf=jf3OpQ-yBcJe7XkvQstX9j2frz4WF-SQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>
---
 tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
index 8dd81ddd9e4e..50593289d53c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
@@ -2684,26 +2684,29 @@ static int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_event(struct perf_session *session,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static bool cs_etm__is_timeless_decoding(struct cs_etm_auxtrace *etm)
+static int cs_etm__setup_timeless_decoding(struct cs_etm_auxtrace *etm)
 {
 	struct evsel *evsel;
 	struct evlist *evlist = etm->session->evlist;
-	bool timeless_decoding = true;
 
 	/* Override timeless mode with user input from --itrace=Z */
-	if (etm->synth_opts.timeless_decoding)
-		return true;
+	if (etm->synth_opts.timeless_decoding) {
+		etm->timeless_decoding = true;
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Circle through the list of event and complain if we find one
-	 * with the time bit set.
+	 * Find the cs_etm evsel and look at what its timestamp setting was
 	 */
-	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
-		if ((evsel->core.attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_TIME))
-			timeless_decoding = false;
-	}
+	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel)
+		if (cs_etm__evsel_is_auxtrace(etm->session, evsel)) {
+			etm->timeless_decoding =
+				!(evsel->core.attr.config & BIT(ETM_OPT_TS));
+			return 0;
+		}
 
-	return timeless_decoding;
+	pr_err("CS ETM: Couldn't find ETM evsel\n");
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -3155,7 +3158,6 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info_full(union perf_event *event,
 	etm->snapshot_mode = (ptr[CS_ETM_SNAPSHOT] != 0);
 	etm->metadata = metadata;
 	etm->auxtrace_type = auxtrace_info->type;
-	etm->timeless_decoding = cs_etm__is_timeless_decoding(etm);
 
 	/* Use virtual timestamps if all ETMs report ts_source = 1 */
 	etm->has_virtual_ts = cs_etm__has_virtual_ts(metadata, num_cpu);
@@ -3172,6 +3174,10 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info_full(union perf_event *event,
 	etm->auxtrace.evsel_is_auxtrace = cs_etm__evsel_is_auxtrace;
 	session->auxtrace = &etm->auxtrace;
 
+	err = cs_etm__setup_timeless_decoding(etm);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	etm->unknown_thread = thread__new(999999999, 999999999);
 	if (!etm->unknown_thread) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.34.1