This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf kvm record/report: 'unprocessable sample' error while recording/reporting guest data
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-kvm-record-report-unprocessable-sample-error-while-recording-reporting-guest-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3caeaa562733c4836e61086ec07666635006a787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:25:02 +0530
Subject: perf kvm record/report: 'unprocessable sample' error while recording/reporting guest data
From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3caeaa562733c4836e61086ec07666635006a787 upstream.
While recording guest samples in host using perf kvm record, it will
populate unprocessable sample error, though samples will be recorded
properly. While generating report using perf kvm report, no samples will
be processed and same error will populate. We have seen this behaviour
with upstream perf(4.4-rc3) on x86 and ppc64 hardware.
Reason behind this failure is, when it tries to fetch machine from
rb_tree of machines, it fails. As a part of tracing a bug, we figured
out that this code was incorrectly refactored in commit 54245fdc3576
("perf session: Remove wrappers to machines__find").
This patch will change the functionality such that if it can't fetch
machine in first trial, it will create one node of machine and add that to
rb_tree. So next time when it tries to fetch same machine from rb_tree,
it won't fail. Actually it was the case before refactoring of code in
aforementioned commit.
This patch is generated from acme perf/core branch.
Below I've mention an example that demonstrate the behaviour before and
after applying patch.
Before applying patch:
[Note: One needs to run guest before recording data in host]
ravi@ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm record -a
Warning:
5903 unprocessable samples recorded.
Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.409 MB perf.data.guest (285 samples) ]
ravi@ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm report --stdio
Warning:
5903 unprocessable samples recorded.
Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 285 of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 88715406
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ............. ......
#
# (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
#
After applying patch:
ravi@ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm record -a
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.188 MB perf.data.guest (17 samples) ]
ravi@ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm report --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 17 of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 700746
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................ ......................
#
34.19% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff818682ab
22.79% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff812dc7f8
22.79% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff818650d0
14.83% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff8161a1b6
2.49% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff818692bf
0.48% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff81869253
0.05% :5758 [unknown] [g] 0xffffffff81869250
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 54245fdc3576 ("perf session: Remove wrappers to machines__find")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449471302-11283-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/session.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ static struct machine *machines__find_fo
machine = machines__find(machines, pid);
if (!machine)
- machine = machines__find(machines, DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID);
+ machine = machines__findnew(machines, DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID);
return machine;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/perf-kvm-record-report-unprocessable-sample-error-while-recording-reporting-guest-data.patch
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