Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xentrace: Avoid Crash on Debug Build Xen

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

diff -r 2d761ca771fb xen/common/trace.c
--- a/xen/common/trace.c        Thu Oct 04 17:58:16 2007 +0100
+++ b/xen/common/trace.c        Fri Oct 05 10:28:33 2007 +0900
@@ -435,12 +435,10 @@ void __trace_var(u32 event, int cycles, 
         {
             bytes_to_wrap -= LOST_REC_SIZE;
             if ( bytes_to_wrap == 0 )
-                bytes_to_wrap == data_size;
+                bytes_to_wrap = data_size;

Good catch!

         }
         total_size += LOST_REC_SIZE;
     }
-
-    ASSERT(bytes_to_wrap == calc_bytes_to_wrap(buf));
 
     if ( rec_size > bytes_to_wrap )
     {
@@ -484,8 +482,6 @@ void __trace_var(u32 event, int cycles, 
         insert_lost_records(buf);
     }
 
-    ASSERT(bytes_to_wrap == calc_bytes_to_wrap(buf));
-

> Current xen-unstable (debug build) crashes when using xentrace command,
> due to assertion failures. It seems assertion failures occur whenever
> there exist lost records, and I don't see much reason to do this.
> (Could anyone explain about these ASSERT lines ?)

These asserts appear to have originally been checking that bytes_to_wrap is 
being calculated correctly...  It looks to me that the first assert 
isoutdated though, because it clearly will fail if a record is lost.

Perhaps the second one ought to succed though, since the value of buf->prod 
will have been appropriately updated by insert_lost_records()?

Cheers,
Mark

> The attached patch removes assertions to avoid system crashes,
> and also fixes a mistake of an assignment statement.
>
> Regards,
> -------------------
> Yosuke Iwamatsu
>         NEC Corporation



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