This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

perf evsel: Fix swap for samples with raw data

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: perf-evsel-fix-swap-for-samples-with-raw-data.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 10:16:32 CEST 2018

From: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:43:46 +0100 Subject: perf evsel: Fix swap for samples with raw data

From: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org

[ Upstream commit f9d8adb345d7adbb2d3431eea73beb89c8d6d612 ]

When we detect a different endianity we swap event before processing. It's tricky for samples because we have no idea what's inside. We treat it as an array of u64s, swap them and later on we swap back parts which are different.

We mangle this way also the tracepoint raw data, which ends up in report showing wrong data:

1.95% comm=Q^B pid=29285 prio=16777216 target_cpu=000 1.67% comm=l^B pid=0 prio=16777216 target_cpu=000

Luckily the traceevent library handles the endianity by itself (thank you Steven!), so we can pass the RAW data directly in the other endianity.

2.51% comm=beah-rhts-task pid=1175 prio=120 target_cpu=002 2.23% comm=kworker/0:0 pid=11566 prio=120 target_cpu=000

The fix is basically to swap back the raw data if different endianity is detected.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171129184346.3656-1-jolsa@kernel.org [ Add util/memswap.c to python-ext-sources to link missing mem_bswap_64() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources | 1 + 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #include "debug.h" #include "trace-event.h" #include "stat.h" +#include "memswap.h" #include "util/parse-branch-options.h"

#include "sane_ctype.h" @@ -2120,14 +2121,27 @@ int perf_evsel__parse_sample(struct perf if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) { OVERFLOW_CHECK_u64(array); u.val64 = *array; - if (WARN_ONCE(swapped, - "Endianness of raw data not corrected!\n")) { - /* undo swap of u64, then swap on individual u32s */ + + /* + * Undo swap of u64, then swap on individual u32s, + * get the size of the raw area and undo all of the + * swap. The pevent interface handles endianity by + * itself. + */ + if (swapped) { u.val64 = bswap_64(u.val64); u.val32[0] = bswap_32(u.val32[0]); u.val32[1] = bswap_32(u.val32[1]); } data->raw_size = u.val32[0]; + + /* + * The raw data is aligned on 64bits including the + * u32 size, so it's safe to use mem_bswap_64. + */ + if (swapped) + mem_bswap_64((void *) array, data->raw_size); + array = (void *)array + sizeof(u32);

OVERFLOW_CHECK(array, data->raw_size, max_size); --- a/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources +++ b/tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ util/ctype.c util/evlist.c util/evsel.c util/cpumap.c +util/memswap.c util/mmap.c util/namespaces.c ../lib/bitmap.c

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jolsa@kernel.org are

queue-4.15/perf-evsel-fix-swap-for-samples-with-raw-data.patch queue-4.15/perf-tools-fix-copyfile_offset-update-of-output-offset.patch queue-4.15/perf-report-fix-a-no-annotate-browser-displayed-issue.patch