Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Exit recording if events have non matching sample type

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>]

Em Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> The event processing relies on all events having the same sample_type.
> 
> This is being checked when the session is being opened read only.
> It also needs to be checked when we do record, since events could be
> read during processing build IDs at the end of the record command.
> 
> If we process events with different sample_type the processing might
> skip some events or hang.
> 
> Following command hangs on my setup:
>   ./perf record -o perf.data -e ext4:ext4_mb_new_group_pa \
>    -e LLC-loads -- date '+%F'
> 
> because hardware and tracepoint events have different sample type.
> 
> With the patch applied the record command displays
> "Non matching sample_type" message and exits.

That is way too cryptic :-\

What is that makes the sample type not match in this case? Can we make
it match instead?

This is something to be properly fixed by _allowing_ non matching sample
types, the evsel/evlist abstractions are getting we close but not there
yet, multiple files in a perf.data/ directory are needed.

Till then can you check if we can make it match or else just say that
the mix of events is not yet supported, please collect them in different
sessions or something along those lines?

- Arnaldo