Re: [PATCH] trace-cmd: Fix kbuffer_start_of_data() to return the first record

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon,  6 Jul 2020 18:47:14 +0300
"Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com> wrote:

> The first record in a ring buffer page may not allways be at the
> beginning of the page. There could be time-extends injected before it.
> In this case kbuffer_start_of_data() will not return the first record,
> as expected. Additional filed "start" is added in kbuffer struct, to hold
> the offset of the first record from the page and kbuffer_start_of_data()
> is modified to use it.

Thanks Tzvetomir,

I'm going to add a comment that this was originally taken from code I
wrote, and you cleaned it up and made it presentable. That way it
states why there's the two signed-off-bys.

-- Steve


> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c b/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
> index 2c5f00a9..844db976 100644
> --- a/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
> +++ b/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ enum {
>   * @next		- offset from @data to the start of next event
>   * @size		- The size of data on @data
>   * @start		- The offset from @subbuffer where @data lives
> + * @first		- The offset from @subbuffer where the first non time stamp event lives
>   *
>   * @read_4		- Function to read 4 raw bytes (may swap)
>   * @read_8		- Function to read 8 raw bytes (may swap)
> @@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ struct kbuffer {
>  	unsigned int		next;
>  	unsigned int		size;
>  	unsigned int		start;
> +	unsigned int		first;
>  
>  	unsigned int (*read_4)(void *ptr);
>  	unsigned long long (*read_8)(void *ptr);
> @@ -546,6 +548,9 @@ int kbuffer_load_subbuffer(struct kbuffer *kbuf, void *subbuffer)
>  
>  	next_event(kbuf);
>  
> +	/* save the first record from the page */
> +	kbuf->first = kbuf->curr;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -755,7 +760,7 @@ void kbuffer_set_old_format(struct kbuffer *kbuf)
>   */
>  int kbuffer_start_of_data(struct kbuffer *kbuf)
>  {
> -	return kbuf->start;
> +	return kbuf->first + kbuf->start;
>  }
>  
>  /**