On 16/07/13 15:48, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 04:12:21PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> Add a test that checks that sample parsing is correctly
>> implemented.
> 
> nice!!! :)
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
> 
> SNIP
> 
>> +static int do_test(u64 sample_type, u64 sample_regs_user)
>> +{
>> +    struct perf_evsel evsel = {
>> +            .needs_swap = false,
>> +            .attr = {
>> +                    .sample_type = sample_type,
>> +                    .sample_regs_user = sample_regs_user,
>> +            },
>> +    };
>> +    union perf_event event = {
>> +            .header = {
>> +                    .type = PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE,
>> +                    .size = sizeof(union perf_event),
>> +            },
>> +    };
> 
> maybe I'm missing something but how does event.sample.array get
> allocated? It's used in perf_event__synthesize_sample func.

'union perf_event' is very big because of 'struct mmap_event' which contains
'char filename[PATH_MAX]' and PATH_MAX is 4096.

> 
> do we need to use something like in the patch below..

Might as well calculate it correctly.

> 
> thanks,
> jirka
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c 
> b/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
> index c6e6813..dcbd40d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
> @@ -111,12 +111,8 @@ static int do_test(u64 sample_type, u64 sample_regs_user)
>                       .sample_regs_user = sample_regs_user,
>               },
>       };
> -     union perf_event event = {
> -             .header = {
> -                     .type = PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE,
> -                     .size = sizeof(union perf_event),
> -             },
> -     };
> +     u64 buf[100];
> +     union perf_event *event = (union perf_event *) buf;
>       union {
>               struct ip_callchain callchain;
>               u64 data[64];
> @@ -162,10 +158,15 @@ static int do_test(u64 sample_type, u64 
> sample_regs_user)
>       size_t i;
>       int err;
>  
> +     event->sample.header = (struct perf_event_header) {
> +             .type = PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE,
> +             .size = sizeof(union perf_event),
> +     };
> +
>       for (i = 0; i < sizeof(user_regs); i++)
>               *(u8 *)user_regs = i;
>  
> -     err = perf_event__synthesize_sample(&event, sample_type,
> +     err = perf_event__synthesize_sample(event, sample_type,
>                                           sample_regs_user, &sample, false);
>       if (err) {
>               pr_debug("%s failed for sample_type %#"PRIx64", error %d\n",
> @@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ static int do_test(u64 sample_type, u64 sample_regs_user)
>  
>       evsel.sample_size = __perf_evsel__sample_size(sample_type);
>  
> -     err = perf_evsel__parse_sample(&evsel, &event, &sample_out);
> +     err = perf_evsel__parse_sample(&evsel, event, &sample_out);
>       if (err) {
>               pr_debug("%s failed for sample_type %#"PRIx64", error %d\n",
>                        "perf_evsel__parse_sample", sample_type, err);
> 
> 

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