Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Iterate on tep event arrays directly

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 17:24:40 EST


Em Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:05:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Instead of calling a useless (and broken) helper function to get the next
> event of a tep event array, just get the array directly and iterate over it.
>
> Note, the broken part was from trace_find_next_event() which after this will
> no longer be used, and can be removed.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017153733.630cd5eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I'll add a:

Fixes: bb3dd7e7c4d5 ("tools lib traceevent, perf tools: Move struct tep_handler definition in a local header file")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx : v4.20+

As this is when this problem starts causing the segfault when generating
python scripts from perf.data files with multiple tracepoint events, ok?

- Arnaldo

> Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c | 8 ++++++--
> tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 9 +++++++--
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
> index 15961854ba67..741f040648b5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
> @@ -539,10 +539,11 @@ static int perl_stop_script(void)
>
> static int perl_generate_script(struct tep_handle *pevent, const char *outfile)
> {
> + int i, not_first, count, nr_events;
> + struct tep_event **all_events;
> struct tep_event *event = NULL;
> struct tep_format_field *f;
> char fname[PATH_MAX];
> - int not_first, count;
> FILE *ofp;
>
> sprintf(fname, "%s.pl", outfile);
> @@ -603,8 +604,11 @@ sub print_backtrace\n\
> }\n\n\
> ");
>
> + nr_events = tep_get_events_count(pevent);
> + all_events = tep_list_events(pevent, TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID);
>
> - while ((event = trace_find_next_event(pevent, event))) {
> + for (i = 0; all_events && i < nr_events; i++) {
> + event = all_events[i];
> fprintf(ofp, "sub %s::%s\n{\n", event->system, event->name);
> fprintf(ofp, "\tmy (");
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> index 5d341efc3237..93c03b39cd9c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> @@ -1687,10 +1687,11 @@ static int python_stop_script(void)
>
> static int python_generate_script(struct tep_handle *pevent, const char *outfile)
> {
> + int i, not_first, count, nr_events;
> + struct tep_event **all_events;
> struct tep_event *event = NULL;
> struct tep_format_field *f;
> char fname[PATH_MAX];
> - int not_first, count;
> FILE *ofp;
>
> sprintf(fname, "%s.py", outfile);
> @@ -1735,7 +1736,11 @@ static int python_generate_script(struct tep_handle *pevent, const char *outfile
> fprintf(ofp, "def trace_end():\n");
> fprintf(ofp, "\tprint(\"in trace_end\")\n\n");
>
> - while ((event = trace_find_next_event(pevent, event))) {
> + nr_events = tep_get_events_count(pevent);
> + all_events = tep_list_events(pevent, TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID);
> +
> + for (i = 0; all_events && i < nr_events; i++) {
> + event = all_events[i];
> fprintf(ofp, "def %s__%s(", event->system, event->name);
> fprintf(ofp, "event_name, ");
> fprintf(ofp, "context, ");
> --
> 2.23.0
>

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- Arnaldo