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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: acme@ghostprotocols.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: detect when perf.data file not closed out properly
Date: Wed,  8 May 2013 09:08:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368025728-4669-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> (raw)

perf-record updates the header in the perf.data file at termination.
Without this update perf-report (and other processing builtins) cannot
properly read events from the file -- the algorithm in
__perf_session__process_events depends on the data_size which is read
from the file header and that function loops if data_size is 0.

Catch this condition when the file is opened and warn the user.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 326068a..aa42c8c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2802,6 +2802,18 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session, int fd)
 	if (perf_file_header__read(&f_header, header, fd) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * sanity check that perf.data was written cleanly: data size
+	 * is initialized to 0 and updated only if the on_exit function
+	 * is run. If data size is still 0 then the file cannot be
+	 * processed.
+	 */
+	if (f_header.data.size == 0) {
+		pr_err("data size is 0. "
+		       "Was the record command properly terminated?\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	nr_attrs = f_header.attrs.size / f_header.attr_size;
 	lseek(fd, f_header.attrs.offset, SEEK_SET);
 
-- 
1.7.10.1


             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-08 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-08 15:08 David Ahern [this message]
2013-05-09  9:32 ` [PATCH] perf: detect when perf.data file not closed out properly Ingo Molnar
2013-05-09 13:59   ` David Ahern

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