[PATCH v2 9/9] perf cs-etm: Show a warning for an unknown magic number
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
acme at kernel.org
Wed Sep 1 08:54:34 PDT 2021
Em Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:36:15PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 02:41:09PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > Currently perf reports "Cannot allocate memory" which isn't very helpful
> > for a potentially user facing issue. If we add a new magic number in
> > the future, perf will be able to report unrecognised magic numbers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Applies cleanly to my tree, test building it now, holler if there is
something that prevents it from being merged.
- Arnaldo
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > index 788ad5a099f6..5b276bdb96a6 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > @@ -2973,6 +2973,11 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
> >
> > /* ETE shares first part of metadata with ETMv4 */
> > trcidr_idx = CS_ETMV4_TRCTRACEIDR;
> > + } else {
> > + ui__error("CS ETM Trace: Unrecognised magic number %#"PRIx64". File could be from a newer version of perf.\n",
> > + ptr[i]);
> > + err = -EINVAL;
> > + goto err_free_metadata;
> > }
> >
> > if (!metadata[j]) {
> > --
> > 2.28.0
> >
--
- Arnaldo
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