From 167e418fa0871c083e2c74508d73012abb01e6f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Richter Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:53:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf report: Report OOM in status line in the GTK UI MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit An -ENOMEM error is not reported in the GTK GUI. Instead this error message pops up on the screen: [root@m35lp76 perf]# ./perf report -i perf.data.error68-1 Processing events... [974K/3M] Error:failed to process sample 0xf4198 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68 However when I use the same perf.data file with --stdio it works: [root@m35lp76 perf]# ./perf report -i perf.data.error68-1 --stdio \ | head -12 # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 76K of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 99056160000 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ................. ......... # 8.81% find [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update 8.74% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update 8.34% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update 2.19% kworker/u512:1- [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_likely_update The sample precentage is a bit low..... The GUI always fails in the FINISHED_ROUND event (68) and does not indicate the reason why. When happened is the following. Perf report calls a lot of functions and down deep when a FINISHED_ROUND event is processed, these functions are called: perf_session__process_event() + perf_session__process_user_event() + process_finished_round() + ordered_events__flush() + __ordered_events__flush() + do_flush() + ordered_events__deliver_event() + perf_session__deliver_event() + machine__deliver_event() + perf_evlist__deliver_event() + process_sample_event() + hist_entry_iter_add() --> only called in GUI case!!! + hist_iter__report__callback() + symbol__inc_addr_sample() Now this functions runs out of memory and returns -ENOMEM. This is reported all the way up until function perf_session__process_event() returns to its caller, where -ENOMEM is changed to -EINVAL and processing stops: if ((skip = perf_session__process_event(session, event, head)) < 0) { pr_err("%#" PRIx64 " [%#x]: failed to process type: %d\n", head, event->header.size, event->header.type); err = -EINVAL; goto out_err; } This occurred in the FINISHED_ROUND event when it has to process some 10000 entries and ran out of memory. This patch indicates the root cause and displays it in the status line of ther perf report GUI. Output before (on GUI status line): 0xf4198 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68 Output after: 0xf4198 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68 [not enough memory] Committer notes: the 'skip' variable needs to be initialized to -EINVAL, so that when the size is less than sizeof(struct perf_event_attr) we avoid this valid compiler warning: util/session.c: In function ‘perf_session__process_events’: util/session.c:1936:7: error: ‘skip’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] err = skip; ~~~~^~~~~~ util/session.c:1874:6: note: ‘skip’ was declared here s64 skip; ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423105303.61683-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/session.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index b17f1c9bc965..bad5f87ae001 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -1928,12 +1928,14 @@ more: size = event->header.size; + skip = -EINVAL; + if (size < sizeof(struct perf_event_header) || (skip = rd->process(session, event, file_pos)) < 0) { - pr_err("%#" PRIx64 " [%#x]: failed to process type: %d\n", + pr_err("%#" PRIx64 " [%#x]: failed to process type: %d [%s]\n", file_offset + head, event->header.size, - event->header.type); - err = -EINVAL; + event->header.type, strerror(-skip)); + err = skip; goto out; } -- 2.30.2