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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2011-10-20 15:59:43 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-10-20 12:41:42 -0200
commit29208e573a9409ee56599cc0157f31b42c7a0235 (patch)
treed3fab38970ba13235c630f4ab4f70edc217ac628 /tools
parentcc02c921a01794f85ad53b396133f11d4ddd17ff (diff)
downloadlwn-29208e573a9409ee56599cc0157f31b42c7a0235.tar.gz
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perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
Fixing the way the tracing information is stored within record command. The current implementation is causing issues for pipe output. Following commands fail currently: perf script syscall-counts ls perf record -e syscalls:sys_exit_read ls | ./perf report -i - The tracing information is part of the perf data file. It contains several files from within the tracing debugfs and procs directories. Beside some static header files, for each tracing event the format file is added. The /proc/kallsyms file is also added. The tracing data are stored with preceeding size. This is causing some dificulties for pipe output, since there's no way to tell debugfs/proc file size before reading it. So, for pipe output, all the debugfs files were read twice. Once to get the overall size and once to store the content itself. This can cause problem in case any of these file changed, within the storage time. To fix this behaviour and ensure the integrity of the tracing data, we: - read debugfs/proc file into the temp file - get temp file size and dump it to the pipe - dump the temp file contents to the pipe Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111020135943.GD2092@jolsa.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/header.c27
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c112
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/trace-event.h13
3 files changed, 123 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 6a9c041134bb..76c0b2c49eb8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2218,15 +2218,29 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_tracing_data(int fd, struct perf_evlist *evlist,
struct perf_session *session __unused)
{
union perf_event ev;
+ struct tracing_data *tdata;
ssize_t size = 0, aligned_size = 0, padding;
int err __used = 0;
+ /*
+ * We are going to store the size of the data followed
+ * by the data contents. Since the fd descriptor is a pipe,
+ * we cannot seek back to store the size of the data once
+ * we know it. Instead we:
+ *
+ * - write the tracing data to the temp file
+ * - get/write the data size to pipe
+ * - write the tracing data from the temp file
+ * to the pipe
+ */
+ tdata = tracing_data_get(&evlist->entries, fd, true);
+ if (!tdata)
+ return -1;
+
memset(&ev, 0, sizeof(ev));
ev.tracing_data.header.type = PERF_RECORD_HEADER_TRACING_DATA;
- size = read_tracing_data_size(fd, &evlist->entries);
- if (size <= 0)
- return size;
+ size = tdata->size;
aligned_size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(u64));
padding = aligned_size - size;
ev.tracing_data.header.size = sizeof(ev.tracing_data);
@@ -2234,7 +2248,12 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_tracing_data(int fd, struct perf_evlist *evlist,
process(&ev, NULL, session);
- err = read_tracing_data(fd, &evlist->entries);
+ /*
+ * The put function will copy all the tracing data
+ * stored in temp file to the pipe.
+ */
+ tracing_data_put(tdata);
+
write_padded(fd, NULL, 0, padding);
return aligned_size;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
index 3403f814ad72..2d530cf74f43 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-info.c
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ static void record_file(const char *file, size_t hdr_sz)
die("Can't read '%s'", file);
/* put in zeros for file size, then fill true size later */
- write_or_die(&size, hdr_sz);
+ if (hdr_sz)
+ write_or_die(&size, hdr_sz);
do {
r = read(fd, buf, BUFSIZ);
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ static void record_file(const char *file, size_t hdr_sz)
if (bigendian())
sizep += sizeof(u64) - hdr_sz;
- if (pwrite(output_fd, sizep, hdr_sz, hdr_pos) < 0)
+ if (hdr_sz && pwrite(output_fd, sizep, hdr_sz, hdr_pos) < 0)
die("writing to %s", output_file);
}
@@ -428,6 +429,19 @@ get_tracepoints_path(struct list_head *pattrs)
return nr_tracepoints > 0 ? path.next : NULL;
}
+static void
+put_tracepoints_path(struct tracepoint_path *tps)
+{
+ while (tps) {
+ struct tracepoint_path *t = tps;
+
+ tps = tps->next;
+ free(t->name);
+ free(t->system);
+ free(t);
+ }
+}
+
bool have_tracepoints(struct list_head *pattrs)
{
struct perf_evsel *pos;
@@ -439,19 +453,11 @@ bool have_tracepoints(struct list_head *pattrs)
return false;
}
-int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs)
+static void tracing_data_header(void)
{
- char buf[BUFSIZ];
- struct tracepoint_path *tps = get_tracepoints_path(pattrs);
-
- /*
- * What? No tracepoints? No sense writing anything here, bail out.
- */
- if (tps == NULL)
- return -1;
-
- output_fd = fd;
+ char buf[20];
+ /* just guessing this is someone's birthday.. ;) */
buf[0] = 23;
buf[1] = 8;
buf[2] = 68;
@@ -476,28 +482,86 @@ int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs)
/* save page_size */
page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
write_or_die(&page_size, 4);
+}
+
+struct tracing_data *tracing_data_get(struct list_head *pattrs,
+ int fd, bool temp)
+{
+ struct tracepoint_path *tps;
+ struct tracing_data *tdata;
+
+ output_fd = fd;
+
+ tps = get_tracepoints_path(pattrs);
+ if (!tps)
+ return NULL;
+ tdata = malloc_or_die(sizeof(*tdata));
+ tdata->temp = temp;
+ tdata->size = 0;
+
+ if (temp) {
+ int temp_fd;
+
+ snprintf(tdata->temp_file, sizeof(tdata->temp_file),
+ "/tmp/perf-XXXXXX");
+ if (!mkstemp(tdata->temp_file))
+ die("Can't make temp file");
+
+ temp_fd = open(tdata->temp_file, O_RDWR);
+ if (temp_fd < 0)
+ die("Can't read '%s'", tdata->temp_file);
+
+ /*
+ * Set the temp file the default output, so all the
+ * tracing data are stored into it.
+ */
+ output_fd = temp_fd;
+ }
+
+ tracing_data_header();
read_header_files();
read_ftrace_files(tps);
read_event_files(tps);
read_proc_kallsyms();
read_ftrace_printk();
- return 0;
+ /*
+ * All tracing data are stored by now, we can restore
+ * the default output file in case we used temp file.
+ */
+ if (temp) {
+ tdata->size = lseek(output_fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+ close(output_fd);
+ output_fd = fd;
+ }
+
+ put_tracepoints_path(tps);
+ return tdata;
}
-ssize_t read_tracing_data_size(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs)
+void tracing_data_put(struct tracing_data *tdata)
{
- ssize_t size;
- int err = 0;
+ if (tdata->temp) {
+ record_file(tdata->temp_file, 0);
+ unlink(tdata->temp_file);
+ }
- calc_data_size = 1;
- err = read_tracing_data(fd, pattrs);
- size = calc_data_size - 1;
- calc_data_size = 0;
+ free(tdata);
+}
- if (err < 0)
- return err;
+int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs)
+{
+ struct tracing_data *tdata;
- return size;
+ /*
+ * We work over the real file, so we can write data
+ * directly, no temp file is needed.
+ */
+ tdata = tracing_data_get(pattrs, fd, false);
+ if (!tdata)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ tracing_data_put(tdata);
+ return 0;
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h
index f674dda3363b..a84100817649 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h
@@ -263,7 +263,18 @@ void *raw_field_ptr(struct event *event, const char *name, void *data);
unsigned long long eval_flag(const char *flag);
int read_tracing_data(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs);
-ssize_t read_tracing_data_size(int fd, struct list_head *pattrs);
+
+struct tracing_data {
+ /* size is only valid if temp is 'true' */
+ ssize_t size;
+ bool temp;
+ char temp_file[50];
+};
+
+struct tracing_data *tracing_data_get(struct list_head *pattrs,
+ int fd, bool temp);
+void tracing_data_put(struct tracing_data *tdata);
+
/* taken from kernel/trace/trace.h */
enum trace_flag_type {