public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@arm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix AUX record suppression
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:13:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190329091338.29999-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> (raw)

Commit 1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records") has an
unintended side-effect of also suppressing all AUX records with no flags
and non-zero size, so all the regular records in the full trace mode.
This breaks some use cases for people.

Fix this by restoring "regular" AUX records.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records")
Reported-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@arm.com>
Tested-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@arm.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 33 +++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 678ccec60d8f..626256dc26c1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -455,24 +455,21 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long size)
 		rb->aux_head += size;
 	}
 
-	if (size || handle->aux_flags) {
-		/*
-		 * Only send RECORD_AUX if we have something useful to communicate
-		 *
-		 * Note: the OVERWRITE records by themselves are not considered
-		 * useful, as they don't communicate any *new* information,
-		 * aside from the short-lived offset, that becomes history at
-		 * the next event sched-in and therefore isn't useful.
-		 * The userspace that needs to copy out AUX data in overwrite
-		 * mode should know to use user_page::aux_head for the actual
-		 * offset. So, from now on we don't output AUX records that
-		 * have *only* OVERWRITE flag set.
-		 */
-
-		if (handle->aux_flags & ~(u64)PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE)
-			perf_event_aux_event(handle->event, aux_head, size,
-			                     handle->aux_flags);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * Only send RECORD_AUX if we have something useful to communicate
+	 *
+	 * Note: the OVERWRITE records by themselves are not considered
+	 * useful, as they don't communicate any *new* information,
+	 * aside from the short-lived offset, that becomes history at
+	 * the next event sched-in and therefore isn't useful.
+	 * The userspace that needs to copy out AUX data in overwrite
+	 * mode should know to use user_page::aux_head for the actual
+	 * offset. So, from now on we don't output AUX records that
+	 * have *only* OVERWRITE flag set.
+	 */
+	if (size || (handle->aux_flags & ~(u64)PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE))
+		perf_event_aux_event(handle->event, aux_head, size,
+				     handle->aux_flags);
 
 	rb->user_page->aux_head = rb->aux_head;
 	if (rb_need_aux_wakeup(rb))
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-03-29  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-29  9:13 Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2019-04-15  8:04 ` [PATCH] perf: Fix AUX record suppression Ben Gainey
2019-04-15  9:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-15  9:22     ` Ben Gainey
2019-04-16 11:31 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/ring_buffer: " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190329091338.29999-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com \
    --to=alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=Ben.Gainey@arm.com \
    --cc=a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl \
    --cc=acme@redhat.com \
    --cc=jolsa@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox