Re: Does perf inject preserve call chain data?

From: Tim Chen
Date: Fri Jun 08 2012 - 13:16:29 EST


On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:13 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 6/8/12 10:44 AM, Tim Chen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:38 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >> Em Tue, May 22, 2012 at 03:58:40PM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> >>> On 5/22/12 12:49 PM, Tim Chen wrote:
> >>>> Arnaldo,
> >>>>
> >>>> Wonder if perf inject munged the call chain data from perf record?
> >>>>
> >>>> When I do
> >>>> perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b | perf report -g -i -
> >>>> I get a complain from perf report
> >>>>
> >>>> Warning:
> >>>> Selected -g but no callchain data. Did you call 'perf record' without -g?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I believe the root cause is that the event list is not written to
> >>> the pipe. Using Arnaldo's git repo as of today (has fixes from
> >>> Stephane) this hack shows the info is there and can be processed.
> >>
> >> How things stand here? Tim, did this fix things for you? If so, David,
> >> please resend with a proper subject line and a Tested-by: Tim, ok?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> - Arnaldo
> >>
> >
> > It didn't fix things for me when I was testing on a westmere-ex machine.
> > I got
> >
> > # ./perf record -a -g -o - sleep 5 |perf inject -v -b | perf report -g -i -
> > incompatible file format
> > incompatible file formatincompatible file formatselected -g but no callchain data. Did you call perf record without -g?
> >
> > Testing was done on 3.5.0-rc1.
>
> Is ./ needed in front of the second and third invocations are do you
> have ./ in the PATH?
>
> David

Thanks for catching my dumb mistake. Things work properly now.

Tim

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