Patch "perf session: Don't rely on evlist in pipe mode" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf session: Don't rely on evlist in pipe mode

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-session-don-t-rely-on-evlist-in-pipe-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:14:30 -0700
Subject: perf session: Don't rely on evlist in pipe mode

From: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 0973ad97c187e06aece61f685b9c3b2d93290a73 ]

Session sets a number parameters that rely on evlist. These parameters
are not used in pipe-mode and should not be set, since evlist is
unavailable. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410201432.24807-6-davidcc@google.com
[ Check if file != NULL in perf_session__new(), like when used by builtin-top.c ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/session.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -135,8 +135,14 @@ struct perf_session *perf_session__new(s
 			if (perf_session__open(session) < 0)
 				goto out_close;
 
-			perf_session__set_id_hdr_size(session);
-			perf_session__set_comm_exec(session);
+			/*
+			 * set session attributes that are present in perf.data
+			 * but not in pipe-mode.
+			 */
+			if (!file->is_pipe) {
+				perf_session__set_id_hdr_size(session);
+				perf_session__set_comm_exec(session);
+			}
 		}
 	} else  {
 		session->machines.host.env = &perf_env;
@@ -151,7 +157,11 @@ struct perf_session *perf_session__new(s
 			pr_warning("Cannot read kernel map\n");
 	}
 
-	if (tool && tool->ordering_requires_timestamps &&
+	/*
+	 * In pipe-mode, evlist is empty until PERF_RECORD_HEADER_ATTR is
+	 * processed, so perf_evlist__sample_id_all is not meaningful here.
+	 */
+	if ((!file || !file->is_pipe) && tool && tool->ordering_requires_timestamps &&
 	    tool->ordered_events && !perf_evlist__sample_id_all(session->evlist)) {
 		dump_printf("WARNING: No sample_id_all support, falling back to unordered processing\n");
 		tool->ordered_events = false;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davidcc@google.com are

queue-4.4/perf-session-don-t-rely-on-evlist-in-pipe-mode.patch
queue-4.4/perf-inject-copy-events-when-reordering-events-in-pipe-mode.patch