Tom Zanussi 10ee9fa3b9 perf tools: Reinstate 'signed' field flag for tracepoints ... 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>		2013-01-24 16:40:52 -03:00
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traceevent	perf tools: Reinstate 'signed' field flag for tracepoints	2013-01-24 16:40:52 -03:00