tree 94c8bff840892df70218232788a397c754e45249
parent e6c76d620379fd65fc0310aee1785ff7b1b10236
author Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1426884413 -0300
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1426960416 -0300

perf trace: Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints

Currently the code skips the first field with the expectation that it is 'nr'.
But older kernels do not have the 'nr' field:

    field:int nr;   offset:8;   size:4; signed:1;

Change perf-trace to drop the field if it exists after parsing the format file.

This fixes the off-by-one problem with older kernels (e.g., RHEL6). e.g,
perf-trace shows this for write:

  1.515 ( 0.006 ms): dd/4245 write(buf: 2</dev/pts/0>, count: 140733837536224       ) = 26

where 2 is really the fd, the huge number is really the buf address, etc.  With
this patch you get the more appropriate:

  1.813 ( 0.003 ms): dd/6330 write(fd: 2</dev/pts/0>, buf: 0x7fff22fc81f0, count: 25) = 25

Based-on-a-patch-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gvpdave4u2yq2jnzbcdznpvf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>