Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] perf timechart io mode

From: David Ahern
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 13:38:56 EST


On 6/24/14, 10:57 AM, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:10:22PM +0400, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
hum, got this when trying:

[jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf timechart record -I
^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.071 MB perf.data (~46806 samples) ]
[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf timechart
Invalid previous event (non-zero)!
0x113f80 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68

I see this kind of message a lot, but typically in high event use cases (e.g., 100+MB files in a run of a few seconds). I usually increase the map size (-m 4096) and/or bump the priority of perf (-r1) and re-run the test.

Hm, I added a bunch of consistency checks which I couldn't actually hit
myself. Nice work :-) Can I get you perf.data?

For some reason, in Jiri's trace we see exit from sys_read with 2,
and then again exit from sys_read with -EAGAIN:
xterm 32028 [000] 43390.908909: syscalls:sys_enter_read: fd: 0x00000004, buf: 0x02076e8c, count: 0x0
xterm 32028 [000] 43390.908917: syscalls:sys_exit_read: 0x2
xterm 32028 [000] 43390.908982: syscalls:sys_exit_read: 0xfffffffffffffff5

I'm not sure how it is possible (either we lost sys_enter, or timestamp
of seconds -EAGAIN is wrong?). I think we might just convert this error
to a warning (we couldn't reproduce it again).

Any lost events?

David
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