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<title>perf test: Fix test trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh for s390x</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:20Z</updated>
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<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-17T08:38:31Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7a92453620d42c3a5fea94a864dc6aa04c262b93 ]

On Intel test case trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh succeeds and the
output is:

[root@f27 perf]# ./perf trace --no-syscalls
                  -e probe_libc:inet_pton/max-stack=3/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms

 --- ::1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.037/0.037/0.000 ms
     0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7fa40ac618a0))
              __GI___inet_pton (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              getaddrinfo (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
              main (/usr/bin/ping)

The kernel stack unwinder is used, it is specified implicitly
as call-graph=fp (frame pointer).

On s390x only dwarf is available for stack unwinding. It is also
done in user space. This requires different parameter setup
and result checking for s390x and Intel.

This patch adds separate perf trace setup and result checking
for Intel and s390x. On s390x specify this command line to
get a call-graph and handle the different call graph result
checking:

[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf trace --no-syscalls
	-e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.041 ms

 --- ::1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.041/0.041/0.041/0.000 ms
     0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(3ffb9942060))
            __GI___inet_pton (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
            gaih_inet (inlined)
            __GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
            main (/usr/bin/ping)
            __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
            _start (/usr/bin/ping)
[root@s35lp76 perf]#

Before:
[root@s8360047 perf]# ./perf test -vv 58
58: probe libc's inet_pton &amp; backtrace it with ping       :
 --- start ---
test child forked, pid 26349
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms
 --- ::1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.079/0.079/0.079/0.000 ms
0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(3ff925c2060))
test child finished with -1
 ---- end ----
probe libc's inet_pton &amp; backtrace it with ping: FAILED!
[root@s8360047 perf]#

After:
[root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf test -vv 57
57: probe libc's inet_pton &amp; backtrace it with ping       :
 --- start ---
test child forked, pid 38708
PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
 --- ::1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.038/0.038/0.038/0.000 ms
0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(3ff87342060))
__GI___inet_pton (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
gaih_inet (inlined)
__GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
main (/usr/bin/ping)
__libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
_start (/usr/bin/ping)
test child finished with 0
 ---- end ----
probe libc's inet_pton &amp; backtrace it with ping: Ok
[root@s35lp76 perf]#

On Intel the test case runs unchanged and succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117083831.101001-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>perf evsel: Fix period/freq terms setup</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2018-02-01T08:38:10Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 49c0ae80eb32426fa133246200628e529067c595 ]

Stephane reported that we don't set properly PERIOD sample type for
events with period term defined.

Before:
  $ perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u ls
  $ perf evlist -v
  cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u: ... sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, ...

After:
  $ perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u ls
  $ perf evlist -v
  cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u: ... sample_type: IP|TID|TIME, ...

Setting PERIOD sample type based on period term setup.

Committer note:

When we use -c or a period=N term in the event definition, then we don't
need to ask the kernel, for this event, via perf_event_attr.sample_type
|= PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD, to put the event period in each sample for this
event, as we know it already, it is in perf_event_attr.sample_period.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201083812.11359-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf record: Fix period option handling</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2018-02-01T08:38:11Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit f290aa1ffa45ed7e37599840878b4dae68269ee1 ]

Stephan reported we don't unset PERIOD sample type when --no-period is
specified. Adding the unset check and reset PERIOD if --no-period is
specified.

Committer notes:

Check the sample_type, it shouldn't have PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD there when
--no-period is used.

Before:

  # perf record --no-period sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
  # perf evlist -v
  cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
  #

After:

[root@jouet ~]# perf record --no-period sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data (17 samples) ]
[root@jouet ~]# perf evlist -v
cycles:ppp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
[root@jouet ~]#

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201083812.11359-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf record: Fix failed memory allocation for get_cpuid_str</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T13:16:11Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 81fccd6ca507d3b2012eaf1edeb9b1dbf4bd22db ]

In x86 architecture dependend part function get_cpuid_str() mallocs a
128 byte buffer, but does not check if the memory allocation succeeded
or not.

When the memory allocation fails, function __get_cpuid() is called with
first parameter being a NULL pointer.  However this function references
its first parameter and operates on a NULL pointer which might cause
core dumps.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117131611.34319-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>perf callchain: Fix attr.sample_max_stack setting</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T14:07:58Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 249d98e567e25dd03e015e2d31e1b7b9648f34df ]

When setting the "dwarf" unwinder for a specific event and not
specifying the max-stack, the attr.sample_max_stack ended up using an
uninitialized callchain_param.max_stack, fix it by using designated
initializers for that callchain_param variable, zeroing all non
explicitely initialized struct members.

Here is what happened:

  # perf trace -vv --no-syscalls --max-stack 4 -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  callchain: type DWARF
  callchain: stack dump size 8192
  perf_event_attr:
    type                             2
    size                             112
    config                           0x730
    { sample_period, sample_freq }   1
    sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CALLCHAIN|CPU|PERIOD|RAW|REGS_USER|STACK_USER|DATA_SRC
    exclude_callchain_user           1
    { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1
    sample_regs_user                 0xff0fff
    sample_stack_user                8192
    sample_max_stack                 50656
  sys_perf_event_open failed, error -75
  Value too large for defined data type
  # perf trace -vv --no-syscalls --max-stack 4 -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  callchain: type DWARF
  callchain: stack dump size 8192
  perf_event_attr:
    type                             2
    size                             112
    config                           0x730
    sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CALLCHAIN|CPU|PERIOD|RAW|REGS_USER|STACK_USER|DATA_SRC
    exclude_callchain_user           1
    sample_regs_user                 0xff0fff
    sample_stack_user                8192
    sample_max_stack                 30448
  sys_perf_event_open failed, error -75
  Value too large for defined data type
  #

Now the attr.sample_max_stack is set to zero and the above works as
expected:

  # perf trace --no-syscalls --max-stack 4 -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.072/0.072/0.000 ms
       0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7feb7a998350))
                                         __inet_pton (inlined)
                                         gaih_inet.constprop.7 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         __GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
                                         [0xffffaa39b6108f3f] (/usr/bin/ping)
  #

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrick Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-is9tramondqa9jlxxsgcm9iz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf unwind: Do not look just at the global callchain_param.record_mode</title>
<updated>2018-04-26T09:02:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T19:48:46Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit eabad8c6856f185f876b54c426c2cc69fe0f0a7d ]

When setting up DWARF callchains on specific events, without using
'record' or 'trace' --call-graph, but instead doing it like:

	perf trace -e cycles/call-graph=dwarf/

The unwind__prepare_access() call in thread__insert_map() when we
process PERF_RECORD_MMAP(2) metadata events were not being performed,
precluding us from using per-event DWARF callchains, handling them just
when we asked for all events to be DWARF, using "--call-graph dwarf".

We do it in the PERF_RECORD_MMAP because we have to look at one of the
executable maps to figure out the executable type (64-bit, 32-bit) of
the DSO laid out in that mmap. Also to look at the architecture where
the perf.data file was recorded.

All this probably should be deferred to when we process a sample for
some thread that has callchains, so that we do this processing only for
the threads with samples, not for all of them.

For now, fix using DWARF on specific events.

Before:

  # perf trace --no-syscalls -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.048/0.048/0.048/0.000 ms
     0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7fe9597bb350))
  Problem processing probe_libc:inet_pton callchain, skipping...
  #

After:

  # perf trace --no-syscalls -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.060/0.060/0.060/0.000 ms
       0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7fd4aa930350))
                                         __inet_pton (inlined)
                                         gaih_inet.constprop.7 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         __GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
                                         [0xffffaa804e51af3f] (/usr/bin/ping)
                                         __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         [0xffffaa804e51b379] (/usr/bin/ping)
  #
  # perf trace --call-graph=dwarf --no-syscalls -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.057/0.057/0.057/0.000 ms
       0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7f9363b9e350))
                                         __inet_pton (inlined)
                                         gaih_inet.constprop.7 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         __GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
                                         [0xffffa9e8a14e0f3f] (/usr/bin/ping)
                                         __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         [0xffffa9e8a14e1379] (/usr/bin/ping)
  #
  # perf trace --call-graph=fp --no-syscalls -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=dwarf/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.077/0.077/0.077/0.000 ms
       0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7f4947e1c350))
                                         __inet_pton (inlined)
                                         gaih_inet.constprop.7 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         __GI_getaddrinfo (inlined)
                                         [0xffffaa716d88ef3f] (/usr/bin/ping)
                                         __libc_start_main (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         [0xffffaa716d88f379] (/usr/bin/ping)
  #
  # perf trace --no-syscalls -e probe_libc:inet_pton/call-graph=fp/ ping -6 -c 1 ::1
  PING ::1(::1) 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms

  --- ::1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.078/0.078/0.078/0.000 ms
       0.000 probe_libc:inet_pton:(7fa157696350))
                                         __GI___inet_pton (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         getaddrinfo (/usr/lib64/libc-2.26.so)
                                         [0xffffa9ba39c74f40] (/usr/bin/ping)
  #

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hendrick Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116182650.GE16107@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf intel-pt: Fix timestamp following overflow</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:56:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T14:02:24Z</published>
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commit 91d29b288aed3406caf7c454bf2b898c96cfd177 upstream.

timestamp_insn_cnt is used to estimate the timestamp based on the number of
instructions since the last known timestamp.

If the estimate is not accurate enough decoding might not be correctly
synchronized with side-band events causing more trace errors.

However there are always timestamps following an overflow, so the
estimate is not needed and can indeed result in more errors.

Suppress the estimate by setting timestamp_insn_cnt to zero.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf intel-pt: Fix error recovery from missing TIP packet</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:56:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T14:02:23Z</published>
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commit 1c196a6c771c47a2faa63d38d913e03284f73a16 upstream.

When a TIP packet is expected but there is a different packet, it is an
error. However the unexpected packet might be something important like a
TSC packet, so after the error, it is necessary to continue from there,
rather than the next packet. That is achieved by setting pkt_step to
zero.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf intel-pt: Fix sync_switch</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:56:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T14:02:22Z</published>
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commit 63d8e38f6ae6c36dd5b5ba0e8c112e8861532ea2 upstream.

sync_switch is a facility to synchronize decoding more closely with the
point in the kernel when the context actually switched.

The flag when sync_switch is enabled was global to the decoding, whereas
it is really specific to the CPU.

The trace data for different CPUs is put on different queues, so add
sync_switch to the intel_pt_queue structure and use that in preference
to the global setting in the intel_pt structure.

That fixes problems decoding one CPU's trace because sync_switch was
disabled on a different CPU's queue.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf intel-pt: Fix overlap detection to identify consecutive buffers correctly</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:56:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T14:02:21Z</published>
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commit 117db4b27bf08dba412faf3924ba55fe970c57b8 upstream.

Overlap detection was not not updating the buffer's 'consecutive' flag.
Marking buffers consecutive has the advantage that decoding begins from
the start of the buffer instead of the first PSB. Fix overlap detection
to identify consecutive buffers correctly.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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