[PATCH 09/10] perf trace: Don't set the base timestamp using events without PERF_SAMPLE_TIME

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Apr 01 2016 - 17:59:26 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

This was causing bogus values to be shown at the timestamp column:

Before:

# trace --ev bpf-output/no-inherit,name=evt/ --ev /home/acme/bpf/test_bpf_trace.c/map:channel.event=evt/ usleep 10
94631143.385 ( 0.001 ms): brk( ) = 0x555555757000
94631143.398 ( 0.003 ms): mmap(len: 4096, prot: READ|WRITE, flags: PRIVATE|ANONYMOUS, fd: -1) = 0x7ffff7ff6000
94631143.406 ( 0.004 ms): access(filename: 0xf7df9e10, mode: R ) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory
94631143.412 ( 0.004 ms): open(filename: 0xf7df8761, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
94631143.415 ( 0.002 ms): fstat(fd: 3, statbuf: 0x7fffffffd6b0 ) = 0
94631143.419 ( 0.003 ms): mmap(len: 106798, prot: READ, flags: PRIVATE, fd: 3) = 0x7ffff7fdb000
94631143.420 ( 0.001 ms): close(fd: 3 ) = 0
94631143.432 ( 0.004 ms): open(filename: 0xf7ff6640, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
<SNIP>

After:

# trace --ev bpf-output/no-inherit,name=evt/ --ev /home/acme/bpf/test_bpf_trace.c/map:channel.event=evt/ usleep 10
0.022 ( 0.001 ms): brk( ) = 0x55d7668a6000
0.037 ( 0.003 ms): mmap(len: 4096, prot: READ|WRITE, flags: PRIVATE|ANONYMOUS, fd: -1) = 0x7f8fbeb97000
0.123 ( 0.083 ms): access(filename: 0xbe995e10, mode: R ) = -1 ENOENT No such file or directory
0.130 ( 0.004 ms): open(filename: 0xbe994761, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
0.133 ( 0.002 ms): fstat(fd: 3, statbuf: 0x7fff6487a890 ) = 0
0.138 ( 0.003 ms): mmap(len: 106798, prot: READ, flags: PRIVATE, fd: 3) = 0x7f8fbeb7c000
0.140 ( 0.001 ms): close(fd: 3 ) = 0
0.151 ( 0.004 ms): open(filename: 0xbeb97640, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3
<SNIP>

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p7m8llv81iv55ekxexdp5n57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 99daeed55a9b..d309f4535a45 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2401,10 +2401,19 @@ static bool skip_sample(struct trace *trace, struct perf_sample *sample)
}

static void trace__set_base_time(struct trace *trace,
- struct perf_evsel *evsel __maybe_unused,
+ struct perf_evsel *evsel,
struct perf_sample *sample)
{
- if (trace->base_time == 0 && !trace->full_time)
+ /*
+ * BPF events were not setting PERF_SAMPLE_TIME, so be more robust
+ * and don't use sample->time unconditionally, we may end up having
+ * some other event in the future without PERF_SAMPLE_TIME for good
+ * reason, i.e. we may not be interested in its timestamps, just in
+ * it taking place, picking some piece of information when it
+ * appears in our event stream (vfs_getname comes to mind).
+ */
+ if (trace->base_time == 0 && !trace->full_time &&
+ (evsel->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_TIME))
trace->base_time = sample->time;
}

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2.5.5