Re: [PATCH] perf script/python: Print array argument as string

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:44:55PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> With the Sebastian's change of handling num array argument (of raw
> syscall enter), the script still failed to work like this:
> 
>   $ perf record -e raw_syscalls:* sleep 1
>   $ perf script -g python
>   $ perf script -s perf-script.py
>   ...
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "perf-script.py", line 42, in raw_syscalls__sys_enter
>       (id, args),
>   TypeError: %u format: a number is required, not list
>   Fatal Python error: problem in Python trace event handler
>   Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> This is because the generated script tries to print the array arg as
> unsigned integer (%u).  Since the python seems to convert arguments to
> strings by default, just using %s solved the problem for me.
> 
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

ack/test anyone? ;-)

thanks,
jirka

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> index 40a815a5360b..a22ab53788bf 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
> @@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ static int python_generate_script(struct pevent *pevent, const char *outfile)
>  			fprintf(ofp, "%s=", f->name);
>  			if (f->flags & FIELD_IS_STRING ||
>  			    f->flags & FIELD_IS_FLAG ||
> +			    f->flags & FIELD_IS_ARRAY ||
>  			    f->flags & FIELD_IS_SYMBOLIC)
>  				fprintf(ofp, "%%s");
>  			else if (f->flags & FIELD_IS_SIGNED)
> -- 
> 1.9.2
>