Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] perf intel-pt: Support itrace option flag d+e to log on error

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Sep 06 2022 - 09:05:15 EST


Em Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 10:34:18AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> Hi
>
> Here are a few patches to add the ability to output the decoding debug log
> only when there are decoding errors.
>
> This is motivated by the fact that a full log can be very large, so just
> getting interesting bits is useful for analyzing errors.
>
> If necessary, the size of output on error is configurable via perf config,
> and perf_config_scan() was added in the 1st patch to make that simpler.
>
> The 2nd patch adds the new option flag to auxtrace.
>
> There are a couple of very minor and essentially unrelated changes in
> patches 3 and 4.
>
> The main Intel PT change is in patch 5 and there is a small example in the
> commit message.
>
>
> Changes in V2:
>
> perf intel-pt: Support itrace option flag d+e to log on error
> Ensure log_buf is defined before use
>
> perf intel-pt: Remove first line of log dumped on error
> Remove first line only if the buffer has wrapped

Applied locally, Namhyung: I think your review comment was addressed,
right? If so can I add your Reviewed-by to all the patches in this
series?

- Arnaldo

>
> Adrian Hunter (6):
> perf tools: Add perf_config_scan()
> perf auxtrace: Add itrace option flag d+e to log on error
> perf intel-pt: Improve man page layout slightly
> perf intel-pt: Improve object code read error message
> perf intel-pt: Support itrace option flag d+e to log on error
> perf intel-pt: Remove first line of log dumped on error
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt | 1 +
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 7 ++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 13 ++-
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 13 +++
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 3 +
> tools/perf/util/config.c | 31 +++++++
> tools/perf/util/config.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-log.h | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 23 ++++-
> 10 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
>
> Regards
> Adrian

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- Arnaldo