Re: [PATCH] perf: fix broken perf inject -b

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Jan 13 2012 - 11:53:31 EST


Em Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:47:31PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
>
> perf inject -b was broken. It would not inject any build_ids
> into the stream. Furthermore, it would strip samples from the
> stream.

Against which tree is this patch?

> The reason was a missing initialization of the event attribute
> structures. The perf_tool.tool.attr() callback was pointing to
> a simple repipe. But there was no initialization of internal data
> structures to keep track of events and event ids. That later caused
> event id lookups to fail, and samples would get dropped.
>
> The patch simply adds back the call to perf_event__process_attr()
> to initialize the evlist structure. Build_ids are again injected.
> The PID is also inject for PERF_RECORD_HEADER_BUILD_ID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
> index 09c1061..f38f370 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
> @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ static int perf_event__repipe_tracing_data_synth(union perf_event *event,
> static int perf_event__repipe_attr(union perf_event *event,
> struct perf_evlist **pevlist __used)
> {
> + int ret;
> + ret = perf_event__process_attr(event, pevlist);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> return perf_event__repipe_synth(NULL, event, NULL);
> }
>
> @@ -173,6 +178,7 @@ static int perf_event__inject_buildid(struct perf_tool *tool,
> event->header.type);
> goto repipe;
> }
> + machine->pid = event->ip.pid;
>
> thread__find_addr_map(thread, machine, cpumode, MAP__FUNCTION,
> event->ip.ip, &al);
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