Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf intel-pt: Fix the pipe mode (v2)

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Tue Jan 31 2023 - 11:10:25 EST


On 31/01/23 04:33, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found some problems in Intel-PT and auxtrace in general with pipe.
> In the past it used to work with pipe, but recent code fails. As it
> also touches the generic code, other auxtrace users like ARM SPE will
> be affected too. I added a test case to verify it works with pipes.
>
> Changes in v2)
> * add a warning in intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info()
> * add Reviewed-by from James

Minor changes suggested for patch 2, otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> At last, I can run this command without a problem.
>
> $ perf record -o- -e intel_pt// true | perf inject -b | perf report -i- --itrace=i1000
>
> The code is available at 'perf/auxtrace-pipe-v2' branch in
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> Namhyung Kim (4):
> perf inject: Use perf_data__read() for auxtrace
> perf intel-pt: Do not try to queue auxtrace data on pipe
> perf session: Avoid calling lseek(2) for pipe
> perf test: Add pipe mode test to the Intel PT test suite
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 6 ++---
> tools/perf/tests/shell/test_intel_pt.sh | 17 ++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 3 +++
> tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 6 +++++
> tools/perf/util/session.c | 9 +++++--
> 6 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 5670ebf54bd26482f57a094c53bdc562c106e0a9