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Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> Em Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 05:57:25AM -0700, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > Em Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 03:05:40PM -0500, Nilay Vaish escreveu:
>> >> Do we not need to release the memory for err_msg if the condition for
>> >> the 'if' statement evaluates to false?  Is it that we are going to
>> >> kill the process, so no need to release the memory?
>
>> > I guess that print_error() is called only when an error was returned
>> > somewhere, that ret parameter, then if there was no error
>> > (JVMTI_ERROR_NONE) in translating that numeric code to an string,
>> > err_msg, it can then be used with warnx() (the main purpose of
>> > print_error()) and then deallocated.
>> >
>> > For err != JVMTI_ERROR_NONE it silently goes back to the caller that
>> > expected it to print something.
>> >
>> > I.e. probably it should have an else clause, something like:
>> >
>> >         if (err == JVMTI_ERROR_NONE) {
>> >                 warnx("%s failed with %s", msg, err_msg);
>> >                 (*jvmti)->Deallocate(jvmti, (unsigned char *)err_msg);
>> >         } else {
>> >                 warnx("%s failed with an unknown error %d", msg, (int)ret);
>> >         }
>> >
>> > Stephane?
>> I will fix all of the comments over the week-end. I am away from office today.
>
> I have almost all of them fixed, will fix this one too, if you agree
> with the analysis.
>
Ok, the proposed fix is correct.
Thanks for fixing issues.

Now, I am tracking down another issue with the injection of jitdump.
It seems something goes wrong with ordering and timestamps and some
valid jitdump samples are not symbolized. It is not clear what is
causing this yet. It may be the issue raised by Adrian a while ago
about the finished_round processing.


> - Arnaldo

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[PATCH 0/9] perf/jit: various improvements Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-14 13:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-14 15:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-14 17:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf/jit: improve error messages from JVMTI Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-17 16:00 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Improve error messages from JVMTI tip-bot for Stephane Eranian <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 5/9] perf/jit: do not assume pgoff is zero Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Do not assume pgoff is zero tip-bot for Stefano Sanfilippo <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 8/9] perf/jit: Check JITHEADER_VERSION Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Check JITHEADER_VERSION tip-bot for Stefano Sanfilippo <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/9] perf/jit: remove unecessary padding in jitdump file Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Remove unecessary padding in jitdump file tip-bot for Stephane Eranian <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 6/9] perf/jit: add unwinding support Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Add unwinding support tip-bot for Stefano Sanfilippo <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-10-13 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-13 20:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-13 21:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-13 21:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf/jit: enable jitdump support without dwarf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-10-13 21:40 +0200
    [tip:perf/core] perf jit: Enable jitdump support without dwarf tip-bot for Maciej Debski <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-24 21:00 +0200

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