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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf data: if a bad header size, retry in pipe mode
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:51 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:57:44AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Currently pipe mode files fail like:
> > $ perf record -o - sleep 1 > /tmp/perf.pipe.data
> > $ perf report -i /tmp/perf.pipe.data
> > incompatible file format (rerun with -v to learn more)
> >
> > This change makes it so that if a perf.data file's header size is wrong
> > it is re-checked in pipe mode, where if wrong it fails as it currently
> > does.
> >
>
> hi,
> how about doing it the other way round like below,
> read header and find out if it's pipe..
>
> seems it's less changes
>
> jirka

Looks good to me. I think removing the function declaration from
util/header.h is still worthwhile, but needn't be in a patch with this
change.

Thanks!
Ian

> ---
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index acbd046bf95c..20c34cec9a46 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -3469,7 +3469,7 @@ static int perf_header__read_pipe(struct perf_session *session)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - return 0;
> + return f_header.size == sizeof(f_header) ? 0 : -1;
> }
>
> static int read_attr(int fd, struct perf_header *ph,
> @@ -3571,7 +3571,7 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session)
> struct perf_file_header f_header;
> struct perf_file_attr f_attr;
> u64 f_id;
> - int nr_attrs, nr_ids, i, j;
> + int nr_attrs, nr_ids, i, j, err;
> int fd = perf_data__fd(data);
>
> session->evlist = evlist__new();
> @@ -3580,8 +3580,16 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session)
>
> session->evlist->env = &header->env;
> session->machines.host.env = &header->env;
> - if (perf_data__is_pipe(data))
> - return perf_header__read_pipe(session);
> +
> + /*
> + * We could still read 'pipe' data from regular file,
> + * check for the pipe header first.
> + */
> + err = perf_header__read_pipe(session);
> + if (!err || (err && perf_data__is_pipe(data))) {
> + data->is_pipe = true;
> + return err;
> + }
>
> if (perf_file_header__read(&f_header, header, fd) < 0)
> return -EINVAL;
>

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