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Subject[tip:perf/core] perf trace: Hide sys_exit messages about syscall id = -1
Commit-ID:  adaa18bf5d9128c4a34f5350b1d46555a949ebc4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/adaa18bf5d9128c4a34f5350b1d46555a949ebc4
Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:55:25 -0300
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:25:45 -0300

perf trace: Hide sys_exit messages about syscall id = -1

That was reproduced via ftrace as described in this cset comment log,
need to investigate further.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-n1i3m0vo6mgq3ddjj95sls2s@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index c907e7e..c3caabb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -298,7 +298,22 @@ static struct syscall *trace__syscall_info(struct trace *trace,
int id = perf_evsel__intval(evsel, sample, "id");

if (id < 0) {
- fprintf(trace->output, "Invalid syscall %d id, skipping...\n", id);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: Noticed on x86_64, reproduced as far back as 3.0.36, haven't tried
+ * before that, leaving at a higher verbosity level till that is
+ * explained. Reproduced with plain ftrace with:
+ *
+ * echo 1 > /t/events/raw_syscalls/sys_exit/enable
+ * grep "NR -1 " /t/trace_pipe
+ *
+ * After generating some load on the machine.
+ */
+ if (verbose > 1) {
+ static u64 n;
+ fprintf(trace->output, "Invalid syscall %d id, skipping (%s, %" PRIu64 ") ...\n",
+ id, perf_evsel__name(evsel), ++n);
+ }
return NULL;
}


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