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Re: perf TUI fails with "failed to process type: 64"

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Hi,

I forgot about the set of issues below. Michael had a suggested powerpc
fix for 3, but it it would be nice to fix the perf bugs in 1 and 2.

Anton
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> Updating to mainline as of last night, I started seeing the following
> error when running the perf report TUI:
> 
> 0x46068 [0x8]: failed to process type: 68
> 
> This event is just PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND:
> 
> 0x46068 [0x8]: event: 68
> .
> . ... raw event: size 8 bytes
> .  0000:  44 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
> D.......        
> 
> 0x46068 [0x8]: PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND
> 
> Which of course is not our error. It took me a while to find the real
> culprit:
> 
>  14c00-14c00 g exc_virt_0x4c00_system_call
> 
> A zero length symbol, which __symbol__inc_addr_samples() barfs on:
> 
>         if (addr < sym->start || addr >= sym->end) {
> ...
> 		return -ERANGE;
> 
> Seems like we have 3 bugs here:
> 
> 1. Output the real source of the error instead of
> PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND
> 
> 2. Don't exit the TUI if we find a sample on a zero length symbol
> 
> 3. Why do we have zero length symbols in the first place? Does the
> recent ppc64 exception clean up have something to do with it?
> 
> Anton

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Re: perf TUI fails with "failed to process type: 64" Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> - 2016-11-21 07:30 +0100
  [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-22 09:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-22 09:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] perf TUI: Don't throw error for zero length symbols Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-22 10:00 +0100

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