| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 05/97] perf intel-pt: Fix error recovery from missing TIP packet | Date | Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:52:43 +0200 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
commit 1c196a6c771c47a2faa63d38d913e03284f73a16 upstream.
When a TIP packet is expected but there is a different packet, it is an error. However the unexpected packet might be something important like a TSC packet, so after the error, it is necessary to continue from there, rather than the next packet. That is achieved by setting pkt_step to zero.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ static int intel_pt_walk_fup_tip(struct case INTEL_PT_PSBEND: intel_pt_log("ERROR: Missing TIP after FUP\n"); decoder->pkt_state = INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR3; + decoder->pkt_step = 0; return -ENOENT; case INTEL_PT_OVF:
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