Re: [PATCH] perf: fix broken perf inject -b

[Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 18:36 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:09:17PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > <acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Em Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:53:26PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > >> <acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> > > >>> @@ -173,6 +178,7 @@ static int perf_event__inject_buildid(struct perf_tool *tool,
> > >> > > >>>               goto repipe;
> > >> > > >>>       }
> > >> > > >>> +     machine->pid = event->ip.pid;
> > >> >
> > >> > > I noticed that this statement conflicts with perf buildid-list (which
> > >> > > I am also fixing for pipe mode).
> 
> > >> > > I don't quite understand why, though.
> 
> > >> > Have you reached any conclusion about this problem? I haven't looked at
> > >> > it in detail, could you please elaborate more?
> 
> > >> I ended up removing it. But I am not sure this is correct.
> > >> Is the pid used in any way when processing buildids?
> > >
> > > I can't think of any.
> > >
> > > The same DSO could conceivably be present in the virtual machine, the
> > > host, and in the workstation used for perf report.  We just use the
> > > build-id in the perf.data file to find the right symtab.
> 
> > Right, so I don't know why it's there...
> 
> This comes from a1645ce1:
> 
> commit a1645ce12adb6c9cc9e19d7695466204e3f017fe
> Author: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Mon Apr 19 13:32:50 2010 +0800
> 
>     perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host
>     
>     Here is the patch of userspace perf tool.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Zhang, what was the thinking about that pid in the buildid event?
I didn't work on it for a long time because of some special reasons.
I check it quickly and below are some explanation.

machine->pid is to support KVM multiple guest os kernels.
1) The guest os kernels might be different version of kernels from host's;
2) The guest os might be Windows.

At host side, every guest os is a process of host although it's multi-threaded.
machine->pid is to save its pid. The pid of host itself is HOST_KERNEL_ID.

In guest os, there are many processes. host os doesn't know them. So currently or
when I enhanced perf to support KVM, perf filters out guest os user space
detailed event samples while still keeping guest os user space simple counters.

event->ip.pid is equal to machine->pid only when 
((event->header.misc & PERF_RECORD_MISC_CPUMODE_MASK) == PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL).

In function perf_event__inject_buildid, we shouldn't reset machine->pid to
event->ip.pid. They are equal to each other if it's a guest os event. Isn't it?
If the event is host event, event->ip.pid points to a real process at host
and it shouldn't be equal to machine->pid (HOST_KERNEL_ID).

Yanmin