aha/tools/perf/util
Frederic Weisbecker 4653881802 perf sched: Fix bad event alignment
perf sched raises the following error when it meets a sched
switch event:

perf: builtin-sched.c:286: register_pid: Assertion `!(pid >= 65536)' failed.
Abandon

Currently in x86-64, the sched switch events have a hole in the
middle of the structure:

	u16 common_type;
	u8 common_flags;
	u8 common_preempt_count;
	u32 common_pid;
	u32 common_tgid;

	char prev_comm[16];
	u32 prev_pid;
	u32 prev_prio;
			<--- there
	u64 prev_state;
	char next_comm[16];
	u32 next_pid;
	u32 next_prio;

Gcc inserts a 4 bytes hole there for prev_state to be u64
aligned. And the events are exported to userspace with this
hole.

But in userspace, from perf sched, we fetch it using a
structure that has a new field in the beginning: u32 size. This
is because our trace is exported with its size as a field. But
now that we have this new field, the hole in the middle
disappears because it makes prev_state becoming well aligned.

And since we are using a pointer to the raw trace using this
struct, instead of reading prev_state, we are reading the hole.

We could fix it by keeping the size seperate from the struct
but actually there a lot of other potential problems: some
fields may be saved as long in a 64 bits system and later read
as long in a 32 bits system. Also this direct cast doesn't care
about the endianness differences between the host traced
machine and the machine in which we do the post processing.

So instead of using such dangerous direct casts, fetch the
values using the trace parsing API that already takes care of
all these problems.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-13 10:22:41 +02:00
..
include perf report: Adjust column width to the values sampled 2009-07-11 10:24:11 +02:00
abspath.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
alias.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
cache.h perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
callchain.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
callchain.h perf tools: Factorize the map helpers 2009-08-12 12:37:37 +02:00
color.c perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper 2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
color.h perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper 2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
config.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
ctype.c perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint() 2009-06-18 09:46:00 +02:00
debug.c perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper 2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
debug.h perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper 2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
environment.c
event.h perf tools: Put the show mode into the event headers files 2009-08-16 19:59:13 +02:00
exec_cmd.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
exec_cmd.h
generate-cmdlist.sh
header.c perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area 2009-09-03 16:21:11 +02:00
header.h perf tools: Librarize sample type and attr finding from headers 2009-08-16 23:06:44 +02:00
help.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
help.h perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
levenshtein.c
levenshtein.h
map.c perf tools: Factorize the map helpers 2009-08-12 12:37:37 +02:00
module.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
module.h perf_counter tools: Add infrastructure to support loading of kernel module symbols 2009-07-02 08:42:20 +02:00
pager.c perf_counter tools: Remove dead code 2009-06-27 06:06:39 +02:00
parse-events.c perf tools: Allow the specification of all tracepoints at once 2009-09-13 10:22:40 +02:00
parse-events.h perf tools: Only save the event formats we need 2009-08-28 07:58:11 +02:00
parse-options.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
parse-options.h perf_counter tools: Add new OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT option 2009-07-02 20:47:14 +02:00
path.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
PERF-VERSION-GEN
quote.c perf: Fix read buffer overflow 2009-08-04 11:09:56 +02:00
quote.h perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
run-command.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
run-command.h perf_counter tools: Remove dead code 2009-06-27 06:06:39 +02:00
sigchain.c
sigchain.h
strbuf.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
strbuf.h perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
string.c perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions 2009-06-19 18:25:47 +02:00
string.h perf_counter: Detect debugfs location 2009-07-22 18:05:57 +02:00
strlist.c strlist: Introduce strlist__entry and strlist__nr_entries methods 2009-07-11 19:20:25 +02:00
strlist.h strlist: Introduce strlist__entry and strlist__nr_entries methods 2009-07-11 19:20:25 +02:00
symbol.c perf tools: Librarize trace_event() helper 2009-08-16 23:06:45 +02:00
symbol.h perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
thread.c perf tools: Unify swapper tasks naming 2009-08-31 10:04:49 +02:00
thread.h perf tools: Librarize idle thread registration 2009-08-31 10:04:48 +02:00
trace-event-info.c perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings 2009-09-02 14:56:33 +02:00
trace-event-parse.c perf sched: Fix bad event alignment 2009-09-13 10:22:41 +02:00
trace-event-read.c perf trace: Fix read_string() 2009-09-03 16:22:45 +02:00
trace-event.h perf sched: Fix bad event alignment 2009-09-13 10:22:41 +02:00
types.h perf_counter tools: Rework the file format 2009-06-25 21:39:04 +02:00
usage.c perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter available 2009-06-07 17:31:52 +02:00
util.h Merge branch 'perfcounters/tracing' into perfcounters/core 2009-08-31 10:03:27 +02:00
values.c perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
values.h perf: Enable more compiler warnings 2009-08-16 10:47:47 +02:00
wrapper.c perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them 2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00