perf session: Do not fail on processing out of order event
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:39:31 +0000 (16:39 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:19:37 +0000 (18:19 -0300)
commitf61ff6c06dc8f32c7036013ad802c899ec590607
treeff00e05038c6b3cbea03b2086cf23f365ae80f1e
parent7ddc6a2199f1da405a2fb68c40db8899b1a8cd87
perf session: Do not fail on processing out of order event

Linus reported perf report command being interrupted due to processing
of 'out of order' event, with following error:

  Timestamp below last timeslice flush
  0x5733a8 [0x28]: failed to process type: 3

I could reproduce the issue and in my case it was caused by one CPU
(mmap) being behind during record and userspace mmap reader seeing the
data after other CPUs data were already stored.

This is expected under some circumstances because we need to limit the
number of events that we queue for reordering when we receive a
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND or when we force flush due to memory
pressure.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417016371-30249-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/event.h
tools/perf/util/session.c