Hi,
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Kapileshwar Singh
<kapileshwar.si...@arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for looking into this!
>
> On 17/09/15 14:11, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:14:36 +0100
>> Kapileshwar Singh <kapileshwar.si...@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When a trace recorded on a 32-bit device is processed with a 64-bit
>>> binary, the higher 32-bits of the address need to be masked.
>>>
>>> The lack of this results in the output of the 64-bit pointer
>>> value to the trace as the 32-bit address lookup fails in find_printk.
>>>
>>> Before:
>>> burn-1778 [003] 548.600305: bputs: 0xc0046db2s: 2cec5c058d98c
>>>
>>> After:
>>> burn-1778 [003] 548.600305: bputs: 0xc0046db2s: RT throttling
>>> activated
>>>
>>> The problem occurs in PRINT_FEILD when the field is recognized as a pointer
>>> to a string (of the type const char *)
>>
>> Actually, there's two bugs here. You only fixed one of them.
>>
>>>
>>> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
>>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Javi Merino <javi.mer...@arm.com>
>>> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
>>> Reported-by: Juri-Lelli <juri.le...@arm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kapileshwar Singh <kapileshwar.si...@arm.com>
>>> ---
>>> tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
>>> b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
>>> index 4d885934b919..39163ea4a048 100644
>>> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
>>> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
>>> @@ -3829,6 +3829,17 @@ static void print_str_arg(struct trace_seq *s, void
>>> *data, int size,
>>> if (!(field->flags & FIELD_IS_ARRAY) &&
>>> field->size == pevent->long_size) {
>>> addr = *(unsigned long *)(data + field->offset);
>>
>> addr is of type unsigned long. That means if we read a 64 bit record on
>> a 32 bit machine (which is supported), this will be truncated.
>>
>> Perhaps we need to make addr into a unsigned long long, and then add:
>>
>> addr = (pevent->long_size == 8) ?
>> *(unsigned long long *)(data + field->offset) :
>> (unsigned long long )*(unsigned int *)(data + field->offset);
What about this? (untested)
addr = *(uint64_t *)(data + field->offset) &
((1ULL << pevent->long_size * 8) - 1);
Do we also need to consider byte endians? Maybe it'd be better adding
a helper to dereference pointers then..
Thanks,
Namhyung
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