Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 04 Dec 2013 21:04:39 -0700 | From | David Ahern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf trace fixes |
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On 12/4/13, 7:41 PM, David Ahern wrote: > Hi Arnaldo: > > As I mentioned on IRC perf-trace fails on older kernels -- like RHEL6. This > set of patches makes it at least usable - though still some problems I am > hoping you can fix. > > Build perf with these patches and run: > > perf trace -- dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero bs=4096 count=16 > > you see something like this which is just wrong: > > 3.684 ( 0.007 ms): write(buf: 2, count: 140737077958816 ) = 27 > > there is no fd (should be 1 for the write) and all the values are wrong. > Perhaps it is an artifact of the older way of doing system call tracing, but > I see something goofy with the 3.12 kernel as well: > 5.633 ( 0.004 ms): write(fd: 2, buf: 0x7fff9177fee0, count: 24 ) = 24
forget this last comment about 3.12; it works fine. That write entry is the final write by dd:
write(2, "65536 bytes (66 kB) copied", 2665536 bytes (66 kB) copied) = 26
That one is fine and looking up I see the 4096 lines as expected.
For RHEL6, the problem is there for the 4096 lines:
32.641 ( 0.005 ms): read(buf: 0, count: 27258880) = 4096 32.655 ( 0.009 ms): write(buf: 1, count: 27258880) = 4096
buf and count are wrong. Adding -e write to the perf-trace I get:
33.775 ( 0.031 ms): write(buf: 1</tmp/zero>, count: 37437440) = 4096
which suggests an off-by-1 error with parsing syscalls versus raw_syscalls. I am hoping you have an idea on how to fix that.
David
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