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[PATCH] btrace: read entire aux buffer
- From: Markus Metzger <markus dot t dot metzger at intel dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:45:56 +0200
- Subject: [PATCH] btrace: read entire aux buffer
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
The data_head of a perf event data buffer grows indefinitely. Users are
expected to compute data_head % data_size to find the location inside the perf
event data buffer.
The aux_head of a perf event aux buffer wraps around and always stays within the
perf event aux buffer.
Well, at least that's the behaviour for BTS and PT - where BTS uses the data
buffer and PT the aux buffer.
GDB does not read beyond data_head or aux_head. This is OK for BTS but wrong
for PT. It causes only a portion of the trace to be considered by GDB. In the
extreme case, the buffer may appear (almost) empty.
Thanks to Tim Wiederhake <tim.wiederhake@intel.com> for reporting the anomaly.
Change it to read the entire aux buffer for PT. The buffer is initially zero so
any extra zeroes we read before aux_head wraps around the first time will be
ignored when searching for the first PSB packet in order to synchronize onto the
trace stream.
2016-10-28 Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
gdb/
* nat/linux-btrace.c (perf_event_read): Allow data_head < size.
* nat/linux-btrace.c (perf_event_read_all): Do not adjust size.
---
gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c b/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
index 5ac5db2..e4144c6 100644
--- a/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
+++ b/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
@@ -119,10 +119,24 @@ perf_event_read (const struct perf_event_buffer *pev, __u64 data_head,
if (size == 0)
return NULL;
+ /* We should never ask for more data than the buffer can hold. */
+ buffer_size = pev->size;
+ gdb_assert (size <= buffer_size);
+
+ /* If we ask for more data than we seem to have, we wrap around and read
+ data from the end of the buffer. This is already handled by the %
+ BUFFER_SIZE operation, below. Here, we just need to make sure that we
+ don't underflow.
+
+ Note that this is perfectly OK for perf event buffers where data_head
+ doesn'grow indefinitely and instead wraps around to remain within the
+ buffer's boundaries. */
+ if (data_head < size)
+ data_head += buffer_size;
+
gdb_assert (size <= data_head);
data_tail = data_head - size;
- buffer_size = pev->size;
begin = pev->mem;
start = begin + data_tail % buffer_size;
stop = begin + data_head % buffer_size;
@@ -153,10 +167,7 @@ perf_event_read_all (struct perf_event_buffer *pev, gdb_byte **data,
__u64 data_head;
data_head = *pev->data_head;
-
size = pev->size;
- if (data_head < size)
- size = (size_t) data_head;
*data = perf_event_read (pev, data_head, size);
*psize = size;
--
1.8.3.1