Revision 8adc0a06d68a2e433b960377e515e7a6b19b429f authored by Jin Yao on 09 December 2020, 00:58:28 UTC, committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo on 21 January 2021, 20:25:33 UTC
When unpacking the event which is from dynamic PMU, the array
output[OUTPUT_TYPE_MAX] may be overrun. For example, type number of SKL
uncore_imc is 10, but OUTPUT_TYPE_MAX is 7 now (OUTPUT_TYPE_MAX =
PERF_TYPE_MAX + 1).

/* In builtin-script.c */

process_event()
{
        unsigned int type = output_type(attr->type);

        if (output[type].fields == 0)
                return;
}

output[10] is overrun.

Create a type OUTPUT_TYPE_OTHER for dynamic PMU events, then
output_type(attr->type) will return OUTPUT_TYPE_OTHER here.

Note that if PERF_TYPE_MAX ever changed, then there would be a conflict
between old perf.data files that had a dynamicaliy allocated PMU number
that would then be the same as a fixed PERF_TYPE.

Example:

  # perf record --switch-events -C 0 -e "{cpu-clock,uncore_imc/data_reads/,uncore_imc/data_writes/}:SD" -a -- sleep 1
  # perf script

  Before:
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.987551:     277766               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.987797:     246709               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.988127:     329883               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.988273:     146393               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.988523:     249977               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.988877:     354090               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.989023:     145940               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.989383:     359856               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1479253.989523:     140082               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])

  After:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402011:     272384               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402011:       5396  uncore_imc/data_reads/:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402011:        967 uncore_imc/data_writes/:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402259:     249153               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402259:       7231  uncore_imc/data_reads/:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402259:       1297 uncore_imc/data_writes/:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402508:     249108               cpu-clock:  ffffffff9d4ddb6f cpuidle_enter_state+0xdf ([kernel.kallsyms])
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402508:       5333  uncore_imc/data_reads/:
         swapper     0 [000] 1397040.402508:       1008 uncore_imc/data_writes/:

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209005828.21302-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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