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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 04/25] perf tools: Add AUX area tracing index
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:11:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5540CA74.9030508@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150428123230.GB22258@krava.redhat.com>

On 28/04/15 15:32, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:29:46PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
>> @@ -344,6 +344,33 @@ out_err:
>>  	return err;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static int auxtrace_queues__add_indexed_event(struct auxtrace_queues *queues,
>> +					      struct perf_session *session,
>> +					      off_t file_offset, size_t sz)
>> +{
>> +	union perf_event *event;
>> +	int err;
>> +	char buf[PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE];
>> +
>> +	err = perf_session__peek_event(session, file_offset, buf,
>> +				       PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE, &event, NULL);
>> +	if (err)
>> +		return err;
>> +
>> +	if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE) {
>> +		if (event->header.size != sizeof(struct auxtrace_event) ||
>> +		    event->header.size != sz) {
>> +			err = -EINVAL;
> 
> getting lost in here
> 
> as per auxtrace_mmap__read it looks like we store PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE event with:
> 	ev.auxtrace.header.size = sizeof(ev.auxtrace);
> 
> and it's followed with more data with size:
> 	ev.auxtrace.size = size + padding;
> 
> so why the check for 'event->header.size != sz' ?

It checks the consistency of the file structure.

But it seems to me that the previous check could be:

	event->header.size < sizeof(struct auxtrace_event)

which would allow for the event being made bigger in a backward compatible way.

> 
> jirka
> 
>> +			goto out;
>> +		}
>> +		file_offset += event->header.size;
>> +		err = auxtrace_queues__add_event(queues, session, event,
>> +						 file_offset, NULL);
>> +	}
>> +out:
>> +	return err;
>> +}
> 
> SNIP
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-24 19:29 [PATCH V3 00/25] perf tools: Introduce an abstraction for AUX Area and Instruction Tracing Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 01/25] perf tools: Amend mmap ref counting for the AUX area mmap Adrian Hunter
2015-05-06  3:11   ` [tip:perf/core] perf evlist: " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 02/25] perf script: Always allow fields 'addr' and 'cpu' for auxtrace Adrian Hunter
2015-05-06  3:12   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 03/25] perf report: Add Instruction Tracing support Adrian Hunter
2015-05-06  3:12   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 04/25] perf tools: Add AUX area tracing index Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-29 11:26     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 12:32   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-29 12:11     ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 05/25] perf tools: Hit all build ids when AUX area tracing Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 12:45   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-29 12:24     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-04-29 15:26       ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 06/25] perf tools: Add build option NO_AUXTRACE to exclude " Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 12:59   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 07/25] perf auxtrace: Add option to synthesize events for transactions Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 13:02   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 08/25] perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_AUX Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 13:09   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 09/25] perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 10/25] perf tools: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 11/25] perf record: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode support Adrian Hunter
2015-04-28 13:24   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-29 13:14     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-04-29 15:23       ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 12/25] perf auxtrace: Add Intel PT as an AUX area tracing type Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 13/25] perf tools: Add Intel PT packet decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 14/25] perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 15/25] perf tools: Add Intel PT log Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 16/25] perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` [PATCH V3 17/25] perf tools: Add Intel PT support Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 18/25] perf tools: Take Intel PT into use Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 19/25] perf tools: Allow auxtrace data alignment Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 20/25] perf tools: Add Intel BTS support Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 21/25] perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_pt Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 22/25] perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_bts Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 23/25] perf tools: Intel PT to always update thread stack trace number Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 24/25] perf tools: Intel BTS " Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH V3 25/25] perf tools: Add example call-graph script Adrian Hunter
2015-04-24 20:33 ` [PATCH V3 00/25] perf tools: Introduce an abstraction for AUX Area and Instruction Tracing Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-28 14:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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