From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/16] perf tools: add feature header record to pipe-mode
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:38:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712073802.GA28985@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALcN6miWeAuqnvJO1N2z3j2Uv7PRfdAi6p_xxpZ2L=eqbPo6tg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:32:40PM -0700, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 09:29:31PM -0700, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> >>
> >> void perf_event__print_totals(void);
> >> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> >> index ddfaf157913d..6f6a54c15cb0 100644
> >> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> >> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> >> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> >> #include "data.h"
> >> #include <api/fs/fs.h>
> >> #include "asm/bug.h"
> >> +#include "tool.h"
> >>
> >> #include "sane_ctype.h"
> >>
> >> @@ -97,11 +98,14 @@ static int __do_write_buf(struct feat_fd *ff, const void *buf, size_t size)
> >>
> >> retry:
> >> if (size > (ff->size - ff->offset)) {
> >> - addr = realloc(ff->buf, ff->size << 1);
> >> + size = ff->size << 1;
> >> + if (size > page_size)
> >
> > event size could be 0xffff - sizeof(struct perf_event_header)
> > also the initial size is most likely > page_size anyway
> >
> > please put this into the patch that introduced __do_write_buf
> >
>
> Thank you for reviewing this. I just realized that I sent v5 without
> properly addressing this issue. In v4 I tried to add a quick check
> without properly understanding the issue. Why is 0xffff the maximum
> size for an event? where is this constraint coming from?
the struct perf_event_header::size is u16
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-13 4:29 [PATCH v4 00/16] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] perf header: encapsulate read and swap David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] perf header: add PROCESS_STR_FUN macro David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 03/16] perf header: fail on write_padded error David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] perf util: add const modifier to buf in "writen" function David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 05/16] perf header: revamp do_write David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] perf header: add struct feat_fd for write David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] perf header: use struct feat_fd for print David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 08/16] perf header: use struct feat_fd to process header records David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 09/16] perf header: don't pass struct perf_file_section to process_##_feat David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-14 1:51 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 10/16] perf header: use struct feat_fd in read header records David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] perf header: make write_pmu_mappings pipe-mode friendly David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] perf header: add a buffer to struct feat_fd David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-14 1:54 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 13/16] perf header: change FEAT_OP* macros David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] perf tool: add show_feature_header to perf_tool David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:55 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 15/16] perf tools: add feature header record to pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-13 18:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-07-12 0:32 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-07-12 7:38 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2017-07-18 4:37 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 4:29 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] perf header: add event desc to pipe-mode header David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:54 ` [PATCH v4 00/16] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode Jiri Olsa
2017-06-14 6:44 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-13 18:55 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-14 6:51 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-06-14 7:20 ` Jiri Olsa
2017-06-14 18:36 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
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