On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:39:54PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:

On 6/23/11 7:22 AM, David Ahern wrote:

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I have not seen issues like this using newer perf userspace against
older kernels. For example, my laptop was running Fedora 14 (2.6.35) and
now Fedora 15 (2.6.38.8) and I typically use latest perf builds (e.g.,
testing patches).

I narrowed it down to PERF_SAMPLE_RAW:

perf record -ag -- sleep 1

is fine, but:

perf record -agR -- sleep 1

fails for me most of the time. The reason I needed to use the -R in
the first place is that "perf script" fails on older kernels with:

Samples do not contain timestamps.

With the newer perf, I don't get errors, but the timestamp field is
invalid. So I need to use the -R flag to get valid timestamps +
stacktraces out of "perf script".

I'm confused, you first said it happens with new tools on older kernel.

Can you tell us which combination of kernel/user raises the error? and
which error.

Thanks!