From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> When testing out the trace-cmd report --align-ts, I saw no difference. And that was because one of the CPUs were empty. Have the --align-ts option ignore empty CPUs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Based on top of: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20210428122839.805296-6-tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx/ lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index 4d5940d8..9726e994 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -4089,6 +4089,9 @@ unsigned long long tracecmd_get_first_ts(struct tracecmd_input *handle) int i; for (i = 0; i < handle->cpus; i++) { + /* Ignore empty buffers */ + if (!handle->cpu_data[i].size) + continue; if (first || ts > handle->cpu_data[i].first_ts) ts = handle->cpu_data[i].first_ts; first = false; -- 2.29.2