Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Rogers <> | Date | Fri, 1 May 2020 10:49:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf session: Try to read pipe data from file |
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On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 4:35 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote: > > From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> > > Ian came with the idea of having support to read the pipe > data also from file [1]. Currently pipe mode files fails > 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 patch adds the support to do that by trying the pipe > header first, and if its successfully detected, switching
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> the perf data to pipe mode. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200409185744.255881-1-irogers@google.com/ > Original-patch-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested and works great, thanks! Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thanks, Ian
> --- > tools/perf/util/header.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c > index 0ce47283a8a1..8ca709f938b8 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c > @@ -3574,7 +3574,7 @@ 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, > @@ -3676,7 +3676,7 @@ 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(); > @@ -3685,8 +3685,16 @@ 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 can read 'pipe' data event from regular file, > + * check for the pipe header regardless of source. > + */ > + 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; > -- > 2.25.4 >
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