[PATCH] perf: cs-etm: Fix the assert() to handle captured and unprocessed cpu trace
James Clark
james.clark at linaro.org
Wed Sep 25 02:54:31 PDT 2024
On 25/09/2024 12:39 am, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
> If one builds perf with DEBUG=1, captures data on multiple CPUs and
> finally runs 'perf report -C <cpu>' for only one of the cpus, assert()
> aborts the program. This happens because there are empty queues with
> format set. This patch changes the condition to abort only if a queue
> is not empty and if the format is unset.
>
> $ make -C tools/perf DEBUG=1 CORESIGHT=1 CSLIBS=/usr/lib CSINCLUDES=/usr/include install
> $ perf record -o kcore --kcore -e cs_etm/timestamp/k -s -C 0-1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1
> $ perf report --input kcore/data --vmlinux=/home/ikoskine/projects/linux/vmlinux -C 1
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> Fixes: 57880a7966be ("perf: cs-etm: Allocate queues for all CPUs")
> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka at os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> index 90f32f327b9b..40f047baef81 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> @@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@ static int cs_etm__create_decoders(struct cs_etm_auxtrace *etm)
> * Don't create decoders for empty queues, mainly because
> * etmq->format is unknown for empty queues.
> */
> - assert(empty == (etmq->format == UNSET));
> + assert(empty || etmq->format != UNSET);
> if (empty)
> continue;
>
Oops I didn't realize you could filter on CPU in report mode. Thanks for
the fix. Adding a test to the end of test_arm_coresight.sh might be
quite useful. Either way:
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
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