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authorJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>2012-02-10 18:05:04 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-02-13 22:55:58 -0200
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perf top: Don't process samples with no valid machine object
The perf sample processing code relies on a valid machine object. Make sure that this path is only entered when such a object exists. A counter for samples where no machine object exits is also introduced to give the user a message about these samples. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328893505-4115-2-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/hist.h1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/session.c10
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 94d55cb2048c..5a88c0dadf15 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -677,6 +677,12 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(struct perf_tool *tool,
return;
}
+ if (!machine) {
+ pr_err("%u unprocessable samples recorded.",
+ top->session->hists.stats.nr_unprocessable_samples++);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT_IP)
top->exact_samples++;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.h b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
index 0d486135d10f..48e5acd1e862 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct events_stats {
u32 nr_unknown_events;
u32 nr_invalid_chains;
u32 nr_unknown_id;
+ u32 nr_unprocessable_samples;
};
enum hist_column {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 552c1c50eea1..9f833cf9c6a9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ static int perf_session_deliver_event(struct perf_session *session,
++session->hists.stats.nr_unknown_id;
return -1;
}
+ if (machine == NULL) {
+ ++session->hists.stats.nr_unprocessable_samples;
+ return -1;
+ }
return tool->sample(tool, event, sample, evsel, machine);
case PERF_RECORD_MMAP:
return tool->mmap(tool, event, sample, machine);
@@ -964,6 +968,12 @@ static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session,
session->hists.stats.nr_invalid_chains,
session->hists.stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE]);
}
+
+ if (session->hists.stats.nr_unprocessable_samples != 0) {
+ ui__warning("%u unprocessable samples recorded.\n"
+ "Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?\n",
+ session->hists.stats.nr_unprocessable_samples);
+ }
}
#define session_done() (*(volatile int *)(&session_done))