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perf tools: Reinstate 'signed' field flag for tracepoints

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For some reason the libtraceevent tracepoint-parsing code is missing
the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag-setting code, which causes problems for the
Perl trace event binding at least, since it ends up unable to
recognize negative numbers.

Things like checking for negative return values therefore fail, causing
scripts like rwtop to instead interpret the negative return value as a
large positive value, which in turn get added to e.g. read totals with
insanely invalid results.

So set the FIELD_IS_SIGNED flag for tracepoint events that specify
"signed:1".

Before:

  # perf script record rw-by-pid
  # perf script report rw-by-pid

  read counts by pid:

     pid                  comm     # reads  bytes_requested  bytes_read
  ------  --------------------  -----------  ----------  ----------
     753  Xorg                          88      512000  7.74763251095801e+20
    1619  firefox                       42         462  2.58254417031934e+20
    1232  gnome-shell                   11         176  1.10680464442257e+20
    1471  gnome-terminal                 3       16366  18446744073709551615
    1408  libsocialweb-co                2          32  18446744073709551613

After:

  # perf script report rw-by-pid

  read counts by pid:

     pid                  comm     # reads  bytes_requested  bytes_read
  ------  --------------------  -----------  ----------  ----------
     753  Xorg                          88      512000        2764
    1619  firefox                       42         462         126
    1232  gnome-shell                   11         176          40
    1471  gnome-terminal                 3       16366          10
    1408  libsocialweb-co                2          32           8

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471b5968821a455cf5168bb4567964e74ecf530.1358527965.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tom Zanussi 2013-01-18 13:51:25 -06:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 2a16bf8c13
commit 10ee9fa3b9
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
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@ -1462,7 +1462,8 @@ static int event_read_fields(struct event_format *event, struct format_field **f
if (read_expect_type(EVENT_ITEM, &token))
goto fail;
/* add signed type */
if (strtoul(token, NULL, 0))
field->flags |= FIELD_IS_SIGNED;
free_token(token);
if (read_expected(EVENT_OP, ";") < 0)