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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [9.124.219.109]) by smtpav03.fra02v.mail.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:43:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Athira Rajeev To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com, mpetlan@redhat.com, tmricht@linux.ibm.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, irogers@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, atrajeev@linux.ibm.com, hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Tejas.Manhas1@ibm.com, Tanushree.Shah@ibm.com, Shivani.Nittor@ibm.com Subject: [PATCH] powerpc tools perf: Initialize error code in auxtrace_record_init function Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:13:01 +0530 Message-Id: <20260426064301.90614-1-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Reinject: loops=2 maxloops=12 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=CIIamxrD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=69edb404 cx=c_pps a=3Bg1Hr4SwmMryq2xdFQyZA==:117 a=3Bg1Hr4SwmMryq2xdFQyZA==:17 a=A5OVakUREuEA:10 a=VkNPw1HP01LnGYTKEx00:22 a=RnoormkPH1_aCDwRdu11:22 a=RzCfie-kr_QcCd8fBx8p:22 a=VnNF1IyMAAAA:8 a=ftuLF5Up4WlwXrOVWlAA:9 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: bYUMPJ6H1heoRJh39AfiN_fYqvVf61Ci X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details-Enc: AW1haW4tMjYwNDI2MDA2NCBTYWx0ZWRfXy+Aal/eGWTsM uqngYrTbES04FSB8FNE4WSD68/HBXt0Vnkt4Dvl7Ov0KQsKHG/mxWdH2ebypf8/UNNPh79T3Bmw 02idVCyeZlNJmq8z1l8RenLJSpllNoOrYs2+hTfDftPqBTaQ4AcL3mWrD+dJxtpW9t4r9qaaefJ xMxMSiiSj8sgGxtxtzda09QiBhGmb04r+oFdRCAXg4sGYv7mVR3SIUQwZ63xLxywO3MZ8HdO5qB B43rgCSCwJ2IP0CWqGTHZam863m1ZnQa0mBM/KugpvCG7TpKDwLUJHeR6cEOA9NbCOUhp0w2th5 K/ebcjxpC0qjxs0Ifozh9XZ5SaQ5MaKNHQUFQSwnY4E2yAcgt4mCwmNdrMNTBMXRrvV7Oteh07U 7ZBh0lojKHSI3WokHyHH5v/hHgBA/OgF0MpEKiw6lhQycjcOo2Lw1Ir/Jah/CXytrl8Z9wOu+ub hYliZIycl1C1OdSxjbg== X-Proofpoint-GUID: bWpierwrhwraEXgfOg4amxVOG0XjDD88 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1143,Hydra:6.1.51,FMLib:17.12.100.49 definitions=2026-04-26_02,2026-04-21_02,2025-10-01_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 impostorscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 clxscore=1015 bulkscore=0 priorityscore=1501 classifier=typeunknown authscore=0 authtc= authcc= route=outbound adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.22.0-2604200000 definitions=main-2604260064 perf trace record fails some cases in powerpc # ./perf test "perf trace record and replay" 128: perf trace record and replay : FAILED! # ./perf trace record sleep 1 # echo $? 32 This is happening because of non-zero err value from auxtrace_record__init() function. static int record__auxtrace_init(struct record *rec) { int err; if ((rec->opts.auxtrace_snapshot_opts || rec->opts.auxtrace_sample_opts) && record__threads_enabled(rec)) { pr_err("AUX area tracing options are not available in parallel streaming mode.\n"); return -EINVAL; } if (!rec->itr) { rec->itr = auxtrace_record__init(rec->evlist, &err); if (err) return err; } Here "int err" is not initialised. The code expects "err" to be set from auxtrace_record__init() function. Update auxtrace_record__init() in arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c to clear err value in the beginning. - Clear err value in beginning of function. Any fail later will set appropriate return code to err. - Even if we haven't found any event for auxtrace, perf record should continue for other events. NULL return will indicate that there is no auxtrace record initialized. - Not having "err" set here will affect monitoring of other events also because perf record will fail seeing random value in err. With the fix, # ./perf trace record sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.033 MB perf.data (228 samples) ] Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev --- tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c index e39deff6c857..fe1ea4e222f3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/auxtrace.c @@ -71,6 +71,19 @@ struct auxtrace_record *auxtrace_record__init(struct evlist *evlist, struct evsel *pos; int found = 0; + /* + * Assign err value to zero here. Any fail later + * will set appropriate return code to err. + * Even if we haven't found any event for auxtrace, perf + * record should continue for other events. NULL return + * will indicate that there is no auxtrace record initialized. + * + * Not having "err" set here will affect monitoring + * of other events also because perf record will fail seeing + * random value in err. + */ + *err = 0; + evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, pos) { if (strstarts(pos->name, "vpa_dtl")) { found = 1; -- 2.47.3