[PATCH v2 9/9] perf cs-etm: Show a warning for an unknown magic number
From: James Clark <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-06 13:41:55
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Subsystem:
arm/coresight framework and drivers, performance events subsystem, performance events tooling arm64, the rest · Maintainers:
Suzuki K Poulose, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
Currently perf reports "Cannot allocate memory" which isn't very helpful for a potentially user facing issue. If we add a new magic number in the future, perf will be able to report unrecognised magic numbers. Signed-off-by: James Clark <redacted> --- tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
index 788ad5a099f6..5b276bdb96a6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c@@ -2973,6 +2973,11 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event, /* ETE shares first part of metadata with ETMv4 */ trcidr_idx = CS_ETMV4_TRCTRACEIDR; + } else { + ui__error("CS ETM Trace: Unrecognised magic number %#"PRIx64". File could be from a newer version of perf.\n", + ptr[i]); + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_free_metadata; } if (!metadata[j]) {
--
2.28.0
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