[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "perf kvm record/report: 'unprocessable sample' error while recording/reporting guest data" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    perf kvm record/report: 'unprocessable sample' error while recording/reporting guest data

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b6f135078a77cd4235503319846a0960a054d127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:25:02 +0530
Subject: perf kvm record/report: 'unprocessable sample' error while
 recording/reporting guest data

commit 3caeaa562733c4836e61086ec07666635006a787 upstream.

While recording guest samples in host using perf kvm record, it will
populate unprocessable sample error, though samples will be recorded
properly. While generating report using perf kvm report, no samples will
be processed and same error will populate. We have seen this behaviour
with upstream perf(4.4-rc3) on x86 and ppc64 hardware.

Reason behind this failure is, when it tries to fetch machine from
rb_tree of machines, it fails. As a part of tracing a bug, we figured
out that this code was incorrectly refactored in commit 54245fdc3576
("perf session: Remove wrappers to machines__find").

This patch will change the functionality such that if it can't fetch
machine in first trial, it will create one node of machine and add that to
rb_tree. So next time when it tries to fetch same machine from rb_tree,
it won't fail. Actually it was the case before refactoring of code in
aforementioned commit.

This patch is generated from acme perf/core branch.

Below I've mention an example that demonstrate the behaviour before and
after applying patch.

Before applying patch:
[Note: One needs to run guest before recording data in host]

  ravi at ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm record -a
  Warning:
  5903 unprocessable samples recorded.
  Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.409 MB perf.data.guest (285 samples) ]

  ravi at ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm report --stdio
  Warning:
  5903 unprocessable samples recorded.
  Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 285  of event 'cycles'
  # Event count (approx.): 88715406
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object  Symbol
  # ........  .......  .............  ......
  #

  # (For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso)
  #

After applying patch:

  ravi at ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm record -a
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.188 MB perf.data.guest (17 samples) ]

  ravi at ravi-bangoria:~$ ./perf kvm report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 17  of event 'cycles'
  # Event count (approx.): 700746
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  .......  ................  ......................
  #
      34.19%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff818682ab
      22.79%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff812dc7f8
      22.79%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff818650d0
      14.83%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff8161a1b6
       2.49%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff818692bf
       0.48%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff81869253
       0.05%  :5758    [unknown]         [g] 0xffffffff81869250

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 54245fdc3576 ("perf session: Remove wrappers to machines__find")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449471302-11283-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/session.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index ed9dc25..8f8742e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ static struct machine *machines__find_for_cpumode(struct machines *machines,

 		machine = machines__find(machines, pid);
 		if (!machine)
-			machine = machines__find(machines, DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID);
+			machine = machines__findnew(machines, DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID);
 		return machine;
 	}

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