On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 04:53:40PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing this perf crash on my arm64-based system:
>
> root@localhost:~# ./perf_debug_ record -e armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/ sleep 1
> perf: Segmentation fault
> Obtained 9 stack frames.
> ./perf_debug_() [0x4c5ef8]
> [0xffff82ba267c]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x4bc5a8]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x419550]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x41a928]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x472f58]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x473210]
> ./perf_debug_() [0x4070f4]
> /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xffff8294c8a0]
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> I find 'cycles' event is fine.
>
> I bisected the issue to here:
> commit bfd8f72c2778f5bd63dc9eb6d23bd7a0d99cff6d (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
> Author: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 17 13:42:58 2017 -0800
>
> perf record: Synthesize unit/scale/... in event update
>
> Move the code to synthesize event updates for scale/unit/cpus to a
> common utility file, and use it both from stat and record.
>
> This allows to access scale and other extra qualifiers from perf script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
> Link:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171117214300.32746-2-a...@firstfloor.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
>
> I am suspicious that this is a real issue, as this patch has been in
> mainline for some time...
>
> This simple change fixes the issue me:
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index 91e6d9c..f4fd826 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -3576,7 +3576,7 @@ int perf_event__process_feature(struct perf_tool
> *tool,
> int max, err;
> u16 type;
>
> - if (!evsel->own_cpus)
> + if (!evsel->own_cpus || !(evsel->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)) //
> roundabout check for !evsel->id
> return 0;
>
> ev = cpu_map_data__alloc(evsel->own_cpus, &size, &type, &max);
>
> It turns out that evsel->id is NULL on a call to
> perf_event__process_feature(), which upsets this code:
>
> ev->header.type = PERF_RECORD_EVENT_UPDATE;
> ev->header.size = (u16)size;
> ev->type = PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__CPUS;
> ev->id = evsel->id[0];
>
> Please me let me know if a valid issue so we can get a fix in.
yea, I can see how we can get here with event having
its own CPUs, and we allocate the id array later at
the time we map the event
I wonder instead of skipping on this feature, we should
allocate the id array, like below
I did not test that.. need to find the server having event
with its own cpus.. also need to make sure evsel->cpus is
the way to go in here
thanks,
jirka
---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 1ec1d9bc2d63..fb2a0dab3978 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include "symbol.h"
#include "debug.h"
#include "cpumap.h"
+#include "thread_map.h"
#include "pmu.h"
#include "vdso.h"
#include "strbuf.h"
@@ -3579,6 +3580,11 @@ perf_event__synthesize_event_update_cpus(struct
perf_tool *tool,
if (!evsel->own_cpus)
return 0;
+ if (!evsel->id ||
+ perf_evsel__alloc_id(evsel, cpu_map__nr(evsel->cpus),
+ thread_map__nr(evsel->threads)))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
ev = cpu_map_data__alloc(evsel->own_cpus, &size, &type, &max);
if (!ev)
return -ENOMEM;
