[PATCH] perf test: Perf test 67 dumps core on s390

Thomas Richter
2020-08-25T07:12:32Z

Linux 5.9 introduced perf test case "Parse and process metrics" and
on s390 this test case always dumps core:

[root@t35lp67 perf]# ./perf test -vvvv -F 67
67: Parse and process metrics :
--- start ---
metric expr inst_retired.any / cpu_clk_unhalted.thread for IPC
parsing metric: inst_retired.any / cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@t35lp67 perf]#

I debugged this core dump and gdb shows this call chain:

(gdb) where
#0 0x000003ffabc3192a in __strnlen_c_1 () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x000003ffabc293de in strcasestr () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000000001102ba2 in match_metric(list=0x1e6ea20 "inst_retired.any",
n=<optimized out>)
at util/metricgroup.c:368
#3 find_metric (map=<optimized out>, map=<optimized out>,
metric=0x1e6ea20 "inst_retired.any")
at util/metricgroup.c:765
#4 __resolve_metric (ids=0x0, map=<optimized out>, metric_list=0x0,
metric_no_group=<optimized out>, m=<optimized out>)
at util/metricgroup.c:844
#5 resolve_metric (ids=0x0, map=0x0, metric_list=0x0,
metric_no_group=<optimized out>)
at util/metricgroup.c:881
#6 metricgroup__add_metric (metric=<optimized out>,
metric_no_group=metric_no_group@entry=false, events=<optimized out>,
events@entry=0x3ffd84fb878, metric_list=0x0,
metric_list@entry=0x3ffd84fb868, map=0x0)
at util/metricgroup.c:943
#7 0x00000000011034ae in metricgroup__add_metric_list (map=0x13f9828 ,
metric_list=0x3ffd84fb868, events=0x3ffd84fb878,
metric_no_group=<optimized out>, list=<optimized out>)
at util/metricgroup.c:988
#8 parse_groups (perf_evlist=perf_evlist@entry=0x1e70260,
str=str@entry=0x12f34b2 "IPC", metric_no_group=<optimized out>,
metric_no_merge=<optimized out>,
fake_pmu=fake_pmu@entry=0x1462f18 <perf_pmu.fake>,
metric_events=0x3ffd84fba58, map=0x1)
at util/metricgroup.c:1040
#9 0x0000000001103eb2 in metricgroup__parse_groups_test(
evlist=evlist@entry=0x1e70260, map=map@entry=0x13f9828 ,
str=str@entry=0x12f34b2 "IPC",
metric_no_group=metric_no_group@entry=false,
metric_no_merge=metric_no_merge@entry=false,
metric_events=0x3ffd84fba58)
at util/metricgroup.c:1082
#10 0x00000000010c84d8 in __compute_metric (ratio2=0x0, name2=0x0,
ratio1=<synthetic pointer>, name1=0x12f34b2 "IPC",
vals=0x3ffd84fbad8, name=0x12f34b2 "IPC")
at tests/parse-metric.c:159
#11 compute_metric (ratio=<synthetic pointer>, vals=0x3ffd84fbad8,
name=0x12f34b2 "IPC")
at tests/parse-metric.c:189
#12 test_ipc () at tests/parse-metric.c:208
.....
..... omitted many more lines

This test case was added with
commit 218ca91df477 ("perf tests: Add parse metric test for frontend metric").

When I compile with make DEBUG=y it works fine and I do not get a
core dump.
It turned out that the above listed function call chain worked on
a struct pmu_event array which requires a trailing element with zeroes
which was missing. The marco map_for_each_event() loops over that
array tests for members metric_expr/metric_name/metric_group
being non-NULL. Adding this element fixes the issue.

Output after:
[root@t35lp46 perf]# ./perf test 67
67: Parse and process metrics : Ok
[root@t35lp46 perf]#

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c b/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
index fc0838a7abc2..80c71a10999d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ static struct pmu_event pme_test[] = {
{
.metric_expr = "1/m3",
.metric_name = "M3",
+},
+{
+ .metric_expr = NULL,
+ .metric_name = NULL,
+ .metric_group = NULL
}
};

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2.26.2