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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] trace-cmd library: Add check before applying tsc2nsec offset
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:12:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210416161221.031d1f5d@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210416103409.24597-3-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:34:08 +0300
"Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com> wrote:

> When converting TSC timestamps to nanoseconds, an offset is used. That
> offset is subtracted from each TSC timestamp, before the conversion.
> However, if the timestamp is lower that the offset this causes an
> overflow, as both timestamp and offset are unsigned long integers. A
> check is added to verify the subtraction will not cause an overflow. In
> case of an overflow, the timestamp is set to 0 and a warning message is
> printed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
> index 974879e8..991abd5f 100644
> --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
> +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c
> @@ -1230,8 +1230,14 @@ static unsigned long long timestamp_calc(unsigned long long ts, int cpu,
>  		ts *= handle->ts2secs;
>  	} else if (handle->tsc_calc.mult) {
>  		/* auto calculated TSC clock frequency */
> -		ts -= handle->tsc_calc.offset;
> -		ts = mul_u64_u32_shr(ts, handle->tsc_calc.mult, handle->tsc_calc.shift);
> +		if (ts > handle->tsc_calc.offset) {
> +			ts -= handle->tsc_calc.offset;
> +			ts = mul_u64_u32_shr(ts, handle->tsc_calc.mult, handle->tsc_calc.shift);
> +		} else {
> +			tracecmd_warning("Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset %llu, set it to 0",

   $llu  ??

Are you testing these? The bad trace files that I supplied triggers this.


> +					 ts, handle->tsc_calc.offset);
> +			ts = 0;

We should turn off the offset and not just zero out the timestamps,
otherwise we just have useless data:

  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094822433105, set it to 0
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094822433105, set it to 0
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094822460994, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094822961507, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094822967292, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094823302351, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094823306954, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094824963751, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094824965723, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094824972124, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094824972697, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094828868305, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094828871264, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094828881104, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094828882014, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094831874377, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094831876734, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094831881252, set it to 0
[..]
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094832060068, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094835262757, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094835265223, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094835270122, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094835273058, set it to 0
libtracecmd: File exists
  Timestamp $llu is before the initial offset 20094835273614, set it to 0
cpus=2
       trace-cmd-3196  [000]     0.000000: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3196 runtime=85576 [ns] vruntime=12853032342 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3196  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3196 [120] S ==> trace-cmd:3199 [120]
       trace-cmd-3199  [000]     0.000000: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3199 runtime=156103 [ns] vruntime=12857102867 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3199  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3199 [120] S ==> trace-cmd:3198 [120]
       trace-cmd-3198  [000]     0.000000: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3198 runtime=100540 [ns] vruntime=12858890364 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3198  [000]     0.000000: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3198 [120] S ==> swapper/0:0 [120]
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_cancel:       hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 now=1444054745103 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_exit:  hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_start:        hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=1444055726117 softexpires=1444055726117
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_cancel:       hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 now=1444055895819 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_exit:  hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_start:        hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=1444056726117 softexpires=1444056726117
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_cancel:       hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 now=1444056782207 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: softirq_raise:        vec=1 [action=TIMER]
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_expire_exit:  hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: hrtimer_start:        hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=1444057726117 softexpires=1444057726117
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: softirq_entry:        vec=1 [action=TIMER]
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: timer_cancel:         timer=0xffffa61a0006be40
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: timer_expire_entry:   timer=0xffffa61a0006be40 function=process_timeout now=4296111312 baseclk=4296111312
          <idle>-0     [000]     0.000000: sched_waking:         comm=rcu_sched pid=12 prio=120 target_cpu=000

We don't want all timestamps zero. We want to disable the starting event.

By having this instead:

		} else {
			tracecmd_warning("Timestamp %llu is before the initial offset %llu\n"
					 "\tSetting offset to 0",
					 ts, handle->tsc_calc.offset);
			handle->tsc_calc.offset = 0;
			ts = mul_u64_u32_shr(ts, handle->tsc_calc.mult, handle->tsc_calc.shift);
		}

We get this as output:

  Timestamp 20094822433105 is before the initial offset 20159736262966
        Setting offset to 0
cpus=2
       trace-cmd-3196  [000]  5923.651995: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3196 runtime=85576 [ns] vruntime=12853032342 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3196  [000]  5923.652004: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3196 [120] S ==> trace-cmd:3199 [120]
       trace-cmd-3199  [000]  5923.652151: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3199 runtime=156103 [ns] vruntime=12857102867 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3199  [000]  5923.652153: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3199 [120] S ==> trace-cmd:3198 [120]
       trace-cmd-3198  [000]  5923.652252: sched_stat_runtime:   comm=trace-cmd pid=3198 runtime=100540 [ns] vruntime=12858890364 [ns]
       trace-cmd-3198  [000]  5923.652253: sched_switch:         trace-cmd:3198 [120] S ==> swapper/0:0 [120]
          <idle>-0     [000]  5923.652741: hrtimer_cancel:       hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]  5923.652742: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 now=1444054745103 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0
          <idle>-0     [000]  5923.652744: hrtimer_expire_exit:  hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780
          <idle>-0     [000]  5923.652744: hrtimer_start:        hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=1444055726117 softexpires=1444055726117
          <idle>-0     [000]  5923.653892: hrtimer_cancel:       hrtimer=0xffff8cc5bd41f780

Much more usable.

-- Steve


> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	/* User specified time offset with --ts-offset or --date options */


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-16 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-16 10:34 [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix overflow when applying tsc2nsec calculations Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)
2021-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] trace-cmd library: Add new trace-cmd library APIs for guest ts corrections Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)
2021-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] trace-cmd library: Add check before applying tsc2nsec offset Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)
2021-04-16 20:12   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-04-19  8:08     ` Tzvetomir Stoyanov
2021-04-19 13:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-04-19 15:14         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-04-28 12:31           ` Tzvetomir Stoyanov
2021-04-16 10:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] trace-cmd: Get the timestamp of the first recorded event as TSC offset Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)
2021-04-16 19:28   ` Steven Rostedt

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