Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf-tool: Don't process samples with no valid machine object

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>]

Em Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:13:34PM +0100, Joerg Roedel escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:34:41PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 05:07:38PM +0100, Joerg Roedel escreveu:
> > > -		if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE) {
> > > +		if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE && machine != NULL) {
> > 
> > Shouldn't we warn the user, even if just once, on the status (last line
> > on the screen) line?
> 
> Probably yes, what would be a good message? I guess something like
> 
> 	"no machine object for sample"
> 
> is not helpful to the user. Maybe something like
> 
> 	"Unresolvable sample(s) recorded"?
> 
> Or something completly different?

This is not completely standardized or harminized across the sources,
but we have things like:

	if (verbose)
		error("Failed to resolve callchain.  Skipping\n");

---

        if (perf_event__preprocess_sample(event, machine, &al, sample,
                                          NULL) < 0) {
                error("problem processing %d event, skipping it.\n",
                        event->header.type);
                return;
        }

---

       if (!ip_callchain__valid(sample->callchain, event)) {
                pr_debug("call-chain problem with event, skipping it.\n");
                ++session->hists.stats.nr_invalid_chains;

---


	What has been done more recently is like the above, account the
number of different problems and then, at the end do like:

        if (session->hists.stats.nr_unknown_id != 0) {
                ui__warning("%u samples with id not present in the header\n",
                            session->hists.stats.nr_unknown_id);
        }


	But this is for perf report or other tools that process all
events and then provide some post processed results, just before
presenting these results.

	I guess we could do that too for 'perf top' like tools, that
continuously show results while collecting more. Perhaps call
ui__warning() if some threshold happens, i.e. if way too many errors of
some kind are happening and then at the end provide a summary of errors
found.

- Arnaldo