tree 1e135fd49360a13e8a03b71b756d8f064e873cc8
parent 92723ea0f11d92496687db8c9725248e9d1e5e1d
author German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com> 1636108890 +0000
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1637240887 -0300

perf inject: Fix ARM SPE handling

'perf inject' is currently not working for Arm SPE. When you try to run
'perf inject' and 'perf report' with a perf.data file that contains SPE
traces, the tool reports a "Bad address" error:

  # ./perf record -e arm_spe_0/ts_enable=1,store_filter=1,branch_filter=1,load_filter=1/ -a -- sleep 1
  # ./perf inject -i perf.data -o perf.inject.data --itrace
  # ./perf report -i perf.inject.data --stdio

  0x42c00 [0x8]: failed to process type: 9 [Bad address]
  Error:
  failed to process sample

As far as I know, the issue was first spotted in [1], but 'perf inject'
was not yet injecting the samples. This patch does something similar to
what cs_etm does for injecting the samples [2], but for SPE.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/20210412091006.468557-1-leo.yan@linaro.org/#24117339
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c?h=perf/core&id=133fe2e617e48ca0948983329f43877064ffda3e#n1196

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105104130.28186-2-german.gomez@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>