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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf arm-spe: Support hardware-based PID tracing
Hi Leo,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:41 PM Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:28:48PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > +static void arm_spe_set_pid_tid_cpu(struct arm_spe *spe,
> > > + struct auxtrace_queue *queue)
> > > +{
> > > + struct arm_spe_queue *speq = queue->priv;
> > > + pid_t tid;
> > > +
> > > + tid = machine__get_current_tid(spe->machine, speq->cpu);
> > > + if (tid != -1) {
> > > + speq->tid = tid;
> > > + thread__zput(speq->thread);
> > > + } else
> > > + speq->tid = queue->tid;
> > > +
> > > + if ((!speq->thread) && (speq->tid != -1)) {
> > > + speq->thread = machine__find_thread(spe->machine, -1,
> > > + speq->tid);
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (speq->thread) {
> > > + speq->pid = speq->thread->pid_;
> > > + if (queue->cpu == -1)
> > > + speq->cpu = speq->thread->cpu;
> > > + }
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int arm_spe_set_tid(struct arm_spe_queue *speq, pid_t tid)
> > > +{
> > > + struct arm_spe *spe = speq->spe;
> > > + int err = machine__set_current_tid(spe->machine, speq->cpu, tid, tid);
> >
> > I think we should pass -1 as pid as we don't know the real pid.
>
> AFAICT, I observe one case for machine__set_current_tid() returning error
> is 'speq->cpu' is -1 (this is the case for per-thread tracing). In
> this case, if pass '-1' for pid/tid, it still will return failure.
>
> So here should return the error as it is. Am I missing anything?

I'm not saying about the error. It's about thread status.
In the machine__set_current_tid(), it calls
machine__findnew_thread() with given pid and tid.

I suspect it can set pid to a wrong value if the thread has
no pid value at the moment.

Thanks,
Namhyung

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