Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] perf cs-etm: Add warnings for missing DSOs

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, coresight@lists.linaro.org,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, leo.yan@linaro.org,
	suzuki.poulose@arm.com, mike.leach@linaro.org,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] perf cs-etm: Add warnings for missing DSOs
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:51:58 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQgGjlWtbaNApkp6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729155805.2830-7-james.clark@arm.com>

Em Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:58:05PM +0100, James Clark escreveu:
> Currently decode will silently fail if no binary data is available for
> the decode. This is made worse if only partial data is available because
> the decode will appear to work, but any trace from that missing DSO will
> silently not be generated.
> 
> Add a UI popup once if there is any data missing, and then warn in the
> bottom left for each individual DSO that's missing.

Looks ok to me (the last 3 patches in this series, the rest I applied
already), can I get some Acked-by/Reviewed-by from the CoreSight people?

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> index 32ad92d3e454..e6851260d059 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> @@ -746,8 +746,16 @@ static u32 cs_etm__mem_access(struct cs_etm_queue *etmq, u8 trace_chan_id,
>  
>  	len = dso__data_read_offset(al.map->dso, machine, offset, buffer, size);
>  
> -	if (len <= 0)
> +	if (len <= 0) {
> +		ui__warning_once("CS ETM Trace: Missing DSO. Use 'perf archive' to export data from the traced system.\n");
> +		if (!al.map->dso->auxtrace_warned) {
> +			pr_err("CS ETM Trace: Debug data not found for address %#"PRIx64" in %s\n",
> +				    address,
> +				    al.map->dso->long_name ? al.map->dso->long_name : "Unknown");
> +			al.map->dso->auxtrace_warned = true;
> +		}
>  		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	return len;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 

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- Arnaldo