Re: [PATCH] perf intel-pt: Fix ip compression

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 20/07/16 12:00, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> June 2015 Intel SDM introduced IP Compression types 4 and 6. Refer section
> 36.4.2.2 Target IP (TIP) Packet - IP Compression.
> 
> Existing Intel PT packet decoder did not support type 4, and got type 6
> wrong.  Because type 3 and type 4 have the same number of bytes, the packet
> 'count' has been changed from being the number of ip bytes to being the
> type code.  That allows the Intel PT decoder to correctly decide whether to
> sign-extend or use the last ip.  However that also meant the code had to be
> adjusted in a number of places.
> 
> Currently hardware is not using the new compression types, so this fix has
> no effect on existing hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> ---
>  .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c  | 44 +++++++++++-----------
>  .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.c   | 24 ++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Hi

This is outstanding but still applies.

Regards
Adrian