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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, tool, record: Fix the header generation for pipe
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:20:37 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829132037.GB27261@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822160713.GA10134@jolsa.brq.redhat.com>

Em Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:07:13PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:51:06PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 16:52 +0200, Jiri Olsa a écrit :
> > > - fd is always file.. the descriptor, which might be pipe, is in output_fd variable
> > >   but, maybe the die call is not necessary.. this should not fail

> > > - the record_file function is called only on debugfs or procfs files:
> > > 	events/header_page
> > > 	events/header_event
> > > 	events/**/format
> > > 	printk_formats
> > > 	/proc/kallsyms

> > > so I think I need to read the whole file as in current code.

> > You read the file twice. Is it the right fix ?

> > Once to compute the length to be able to write the output header, once
> > to process the content.

> > Are you sure length cannot change between the two phases ?

> > /proc/kallsyms can definitely change when a module is loaded.

> Right, better to store it to a temp file as you suggest, so we have
> consistent view.. I'll prepare new patch.

Hi Jiri, any news here?

I just stumbled in this bug while testing Neil's net_dropmonitor script
:-\

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-29 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 14:23 [PATCH] perf, tool, record: Fix the header generation for pipe Jiri Olsa
2011-08-22 14:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-08-22 14:52   ` Jiri Olsa
2011-08-22 15:51     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-08-22 16:07       ` Jiri Olsa
2011-08-29 13:20         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2011-08-29 13:41           ` Jiri Olsa
2011-08-29 14:25             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-14 13:58               ` [PATCH] perf tools: Fix tracing info recording Jiri Olsa
2011-09-14 15:44                 ` Neil Horman
2011-09-21 15:30                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-09-25 13:34                   ` Jiri Olsa
2011-09-26  9:11                     ` [PATCHv2 1/2] " Jiri Olsa
2011-09-26  9:11                       ` [PATCHv2 1/2] perf tools: Collect tracing event data files directly Jiri Olsa
2011-09-26 13:36                         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-09-26 14:56                           ` Jiri Olsa
2011-09-28 13:55                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-09-28 14:03                               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-09-28 14:17                                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-09-28 14:23                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-09-28 16:56                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-09-28 17:10                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-10  5:22                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-10 12:27                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-10-10 14:21                                           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-09-26 13:43                         ` David Ahern
2011-09-26 14:58                           ` Jiri Olsa
2011-09-26  9:11                       ` [PATCHv2 2/2] perf tools: Fix tracing info recording Jiri Olsa
2011-09-29 15:05                       ` [PATCHv3 0/2] " Jiri Olsa
2011-09-29 15:05                         ` [PATCHv3 1/2] perf tools: Fix raw sample reading Jiri Olsa
2011-09-29 15:34                           ` David Ahern
2011-09-29 15:05                         ` [PATCHv3 2/2] perf tools: Fix tracing info recording Jiri Olsa
2011-10-13 14:00                           ` Jiri Olsa
2011-10-20 13:59                             ` [PATCHv4] " Jiri Olsa
2011-10-20 21:28                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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