From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> If there is no compression algorithm, do not even bother trying to do compression. Just turn it off. This is not a bug, it is more of an optimization. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index 425c6077d88e..90bfa0f32984 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -4278,7 +4278,10 @@ struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_alloc_fd(int fd, int flags) if (!zver) goto failed_read; - if (strcmp(zname, "none")) { + if (strcmp(zname, "none") == 0) { + handle->read_zpage = false; + handle->flags &= ~TRACECMD_FL_COMPRESSION; + } else { handle->compress = tracecmd_compress_alloc(zname, zver, handle->fd, handle->pevent, NULL); -- 2.35.1