Re: [PATCH] perf test: Test case 66 broken on s390 (lib/traceevent issue)

From: Thomas Richter
Date: Mon Jan 27 2020 - 02:35:48 EST


On 1/24/20 5:36 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:31:53 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steven and Thomas,
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:07:42 -0500
>> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> This looks like a kernel bug, not a libtraceevent parsing bug.
>>
>> Totally agreed. It was my fault to update the print format.
>> Even if still there is a problem on s390, this patch must be
>> applied.
>
> Thanks Masami for looking into it.
>
> Thomas,
>
> Please still test this patch. If it works, I'd like to add a
> Reported-by and Tested-by tag from you.
>
> -- Steve
>
>>
>> Fixes: 88903c464321 ("tracing/probe: Add ustring type for user-space string")
>> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>

Steven and Masami,

thanks for the patch, it fixes this issue!

PS: I should have sent this description earlier, would have saved a week of debugging
on my side....

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Thomas Richter, Dept 3252, IBM s390 Linux Development, Boeblingen, Germany
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