<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well, if you're already working on this,
I will simply wait.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">From what you're describing, this will
be perfect for us.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks!</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="sans-serif">Amit Margalit</font>
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@efficios.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Amit Margalit/Israel/IBM@IBMIL</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">07/29/2013 08:53 PM</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [lttng-dev]
Getting SIGBUS in babeltrace - occasionally</font>
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<hr noshade>
<br>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>Hi,<br>
<br>
We are working on generating the index file during tracing, so<br>
Babeltrace does not need to create it when it opens the trace. It will<br>
be ready in the next weeks in my branches and fixed/merged when Mathieu<br>
and David come back from vacation.<br>
<br>
If you want Babeltrace to write the index on disk and parse it on open,<br>
you could have a look at my output-index branch in<br>
git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/babeltrace<br>
These are earlier prototypes for the live reading, but there are patches<br>
that do exactly what you are looking for. They won't be merged as is,<br>
the index structure might change and the index file will have the suffix<br>
.idx instead of the prefix idx_, but it might help you for now while we<br>
work on integrating all of that.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Julien<br>
<br>
On 13-07-28 02:19 AM, Amit Margalit wrote:<br>
> Thanks.<br>
> <br>
> While we're at it, can we somehow save the index to a separate file,
and <br>
> allow a reload when re-opening the trace? That would speed up opening
<br>
> considerably...<br>
> <br>
> I am about to attempt this, and I'll submit a patch if it works for
me.<br>
> <br>
> Amit Margalit<br>
> IBM XIV - /Storage Reinvented/<br>
> XIV-NAS Development Team<br>
> Tel. 03-689-7774<br>
> Fax. 03-689-7230<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> From: Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@efficios.com><br>
> To: Amit Margalit/Israel/IBM@IBMIL<br>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, <br>
> lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org<br>
> Date: 07/25/2013 07:37 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Getting SIGBUS in babeltrace - occasionally<br>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> > Is there a way to determine the "latest timestamp
that is safe to <br>
> access" ?<br>
> I guess with the switch-timers enabled on all channels (including<br>
> metadata) you can estimate what is the maximum timestamp you can read.<br>
> <br>
> For example, if your switch-timer is set to 1 second, you can check
the<br>
> current time, wait a 1 second grace period and read the trace up to
that<br>
> point, but I wouldn't consider that a safe or clean method.<br>
> Also, you need to reopen the trace every time since the index is done<br>
> only when opening the trace and metadata might get appended during
the<br>
> trace.<br>
> <br>
> I don't know exactly what your use-case is, but the live reading seems<br>
> to be what you are looking for. We will post more details about it
soon.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Julien<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> ><br>
> > Currently, I am using get_timestamp_end() on the trace
handle and then I<br>
> > try to read the events at that point, and if I fail, I
simply try<br>
> > earlier times until I succeed in reading an event.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> ><br>
> > Amit Margalit<br>
> > IBM XIV - /Storage Reinvented/<br>
> > XIV-NAS Development Team<br>
> > Tel. 03-689-7774<br>
> > Fax. 03-689-7230<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com><br>
> > To: Amit Margalit/Israel/IBM@IBMIL<br>
> > Cc: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org<br>
> > Date: 07/24/2013 07:14 PM<br>
> > Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Getting
SIGBUS in babeltrace - <br>
> occasionally<br>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > * Amit Margalit (AMITM@il.ibm.com) wrote:<br>
> >> Hi,<br>
> >><br>
> >> Access beyond end of file seems to be the issue IIUC.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Let me try to give as much context as I can and answer
your <br>
> questions one<br>
> >> by one:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Versions<br>
> >><br>
> >> lttng-ust 2.2.0, lttng-tools 2.2.0, babeltrace - I
used git hash<br>
> >> cc26a15ac355d886bb507955fdaec9b218024713 with a patch
on <br>
> babeltrace.i.in.<br>
> >><br>
> >> [I cannot supply the patch as this requires my employer's
(IBM)<br>
> > approval -<br>
> >> I am in the process of obtaining a permanent contribution
approval, but<br>
> >> until then...]<br>
> >><br>
> >> However, I can tell you exactly what it does:<br>
> >> 1. Adds a typedef for 'ssize_t'<br>
> >> 2. Added a call to _bt_ctf_get_decl_from_def() around
the argument<br>
> >> supplied to _bt_ctf_get_int_len()<br>
> >> 3. Changed all use of {} in string ".format()"
calls to add numbers <br>
> (e.g.<br>
> >> {0} instead of {}) - as this doesn't work for Python
2.6.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I am waiting for the contribution approval and then
I'll submit a patch.<br>
> >><br>
> >> To provide a trace sample, I'll need a special approval,
which could <br>
> take<br>
> >> very long.<br>
> >><br>
> >> System Setup<br>
> >><br>
> >> Processor: Xeon-family 6-cores (12 if you count HT)<br>
> >> RAM: 24GB of RAM, page size is 4KB.<br>
> >> OS: Linux 2.6.32.12-211_11_4_0 based on an MCP (IBM's
SuSE derivative)<br>
> >> build.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Tracing Setup<br>
> >><br>
> >> Same system used to generate, collect and read the
traces.<br>
> >> 100% user-space.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Triggering<br>
> >><br>
> >> This is not readily reproducible. Some context:<br>
> >><br>
> >> We have an in-house trace mechanism including a code
instrumentor and a<br>
> >> curses-based viewer (actually urwid+python).<br>
> >> My current project is to embed LTTng logging and trace
capabilites into<br>
> >> several open-source projects, because we couldn't use
our in-house <br>
> tracer<br>
> >> without having GPL issues.<br>
> >> I have written a back-end that enables our in-house
viewer to display<br>
> >> Lttng traces, by linking with libbabeltrace (allowed
by its LGPL <br>
> license).<br>
> >><br>
> >> As far as I can tell SIGBUS happens to me when I was
doing a search. <br>
> This<br>
> >> literally reads the events in sequence and tries to
compare some fields<br>
> >> against some criteria.<br>
> >><br>
> >> And here's the main reason why I think this is happening
- I was <br>
> adding a<br>
> >> trace (using add_traces_recursive(trace_dir,'ctf'))
while the session is<br>
> >> active (i.e. not stopped).<br>
> >><br>
> >> I can see 2 problematic scenarios here:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Scenario 1<br>
> >><br>
> >> When I add the trace to the context babeltrace performs
mmap() according<br>
> >> to the size of the file(s) at that moment.<br>
> >> The files keep growing.<br>
> >> When I try to access new packets they may lie beyond
the end of the<br>
> >> mmap'ed region. I think this should lead to SIGSEGV
and not to SIGBUS.<br>
> ><br>
> > babeltrace only mmap packet by packet, never an entire
file.<br>
> ><br>
> >><br>
> >> Scenario 2<br>
> >><br>
> >> Due to buffering issues, I could be having a race with
the session<br>
> > daemon,<br>
> >> where my code reads the beginning of a packet that
was already <br>
> written to<br>
> >> the file, and try to access the contents, which were
not yet written.<br>
> >> Again - could happen around the end of the file, with
the session still<br>
> >> active.<br>
> ><br>
> > I think the reason is close to this scenario: I think that
babeltrace<br>
> > try to read a packet as it is being written to disk. So
it gets the<br>
> > packet header (including the expected size of the packet),
and attempts<br>
> > to read beyond the end of the partially-copied packet.
Live streaming<br>
> > feature (we're working on this for the next release of
lttng) will<br>
> > handle thi use-cases.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> ><br>
> > Mathieu<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >><br>
> >> Amit<br>
> >><br>
> >> Amit Margalit<br>
> >> IBM XIV - Storage Reinvented<br>
> >> XIV-NAS Development Team<br>
> >> Tel. 03-689-7774<br>
> >> Fax. 03-689-7230<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com><br>
> >> To: Amit Margalit/Israel/IBM@IBMIL<br>
> >> Cc: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org<br>
> >> Date: 07/24/2013 04:20 PM<br>
> >> Subject: Re: [lttng-dev]
Getting SIGBUS in babeltrace -<br>
> >> occasionally<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com)
wrote:<br>
> >> > * Amit Margalit (AMITM@il.ibm.com) wrote:<br>
> >> > > Hi,<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > I am getting occasional SIGBUS inside _aligned_integer_read()
in<br>
> >> > > ./formats/ctf/types/integer.c<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Here is the backtrace, maybe someone could
take a look and suggest<br>
> >> > > something:<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > It looks like you're hitting the internal checks
for overflow on the<br>
> >> > buffer boundaries.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Please forget about my previous email, I'm utterly
wrong. That should<br>
> >> teach me to reply before my first morning coffee ;)<br>
> >><br>
> >> We indeed have internal checks for overflows in babeltrace,
but those<br>
> >> are not triggering SIGBUS ever, they return failure
gracefully.<br>
> >><br>
> >> What seems to happen in your case is documented here:<br>
> >><br>
> >> mmap(2) manpage:<br>
> >><br>
> >> SIGBUS Attempted access
to a portion of the buffer that does not<br>
> >> corre$B!>(B<br>
> >> spond
to the file (for example, beyond the end
of the<br>
> >> file,<br>
> >> including
the case where another process has <br>
> truncated<br>
> >> the<br>
> >> file).<br>
> >><br>
> >> I'm curious to learn which versions of babeltrace/ust/modules
you are<br>
> >> using, if you modified them (and how), and if you can
get us a sample<br>
> >> trace that triggers the issue.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Also, a bit of context about your setup: is this 32-bit
or 64-bit<br>
> >> user-space, which OS.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Hrm.<br>
> >><br>
> >> By any chance, is it possible that you record your
trace on a platform<br>
> >> with 4kB pages, and run babeltrace on it on a platform
having 64kB<br>
> >> pages? Everything points me to include/babeltrace/mmap-align.h<br>
> >> mmap_align_addr(). We might be mmaping beyond the end
of file in this<br>
> >> case.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks!<br>
> >><br>
> >> Mathieu<br>
> >><br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > On which babeltrace version can you reproduce
it ? Did you do any<br>
> >> > modification to babeltrace on your own on top
?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Are you getting this with a lttng-ust or lttng-modules
trace ? If yes,<br>
> >> > which version of the tool has generated the trace
?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Can you provide a sample trace that triggers this
issue ?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Can you give us the detailed sequence of steps
you use to reproduce ?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Thanks,<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Mathieu<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > > #0 _aligned_integer_read (definition=0x954320,
ppos=0x106e028) at<br>
> >> > > integer.c:81<br>
> >> > > #1 ctf_integer_read (ppos=0x106e028,
definition=0x954320) at<br>
> >> > > integer.c:224<br>
> >> > > #2 0x00007ffff070e36e in generic_rw
(definition=<optimized out>,<br>
> >> > > pos=0x106e028) at ../include/babeltrace/types.h:133<br>
> >> > > #3 bt_struct_rw (ppos=0x106e028, definition=0x9542e0)
at <br>
> struct.c:56<br>
> >> > > #4 0x00007ffff13f7fda in generic_rw
(definition=<optimized out>,<br>
> >> > > pos=0x106e028) at ../../include/babeltrace/types.h:133<br>
> >> > > #5 ctf_packet_seek (stream_pos=0x106e028,
index=<optimized out>,<br>
> >> > > whence=<optimized out>) at ctf.c:860<br>
> >> > > #6 0x00007ffff070a3f1 in seek_file_stream_by_timestamp<br>
> >> > > (cfs=cfs@entry=0x106cf90,<br>
> >> timestamp=timestamp@entry=1374636821498972926)<br>
> >> > > at iterator.c:141<br>
> >> > > #7 0x00007ffff070aa96 in seek_ctf_trace_by_timestamp<br>
> >> > > (stream_heap=0x176d310, timestamp=1374636821498972926,
<br>
> tin=<optimized<br>
> >> > > out>) at iterator.c:188<br>
> >> > > #8 bt_iter_set_pos (iter=iter@entry=0xfdafa0,
<br>
> iter_pos=0x2bf59f0) at<br>
> >> > > iterator.c:439<br>
> >> > > #9 0x00007ffff1624f01 in _wrap__bt_iter_set_pos
(self=<optimized<br>
> >> out>,<br>
> >> > > args=<optimized out>) at babeltrace_wrap.c:3805<br>
> >> > > #10 0x00007ffff7b28c0c in call_function (oparg=<optimized
out>,<br>
> >> > > pp_stack=<optimized out>) at Python/ceval.c:3679<br>
> >> > > #11 PyEval_EvalFrameEx (f=0x1c243c0, throwflag=<optimized
out>) at<br>
> >> > > Python/ceval.c:2370<br>
> >> > > #12 0x00007ffff7b2e0d2 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx
(co=0xa8e5d0,<br>
> >> > > globals=<optimized out>, locals=<optimized
out>, args=0x2088cc8,<br>
> >> > > argcount=0, kws=0x0, kwcount=0, defs=0x0,
defcount=0, closure=0x0)<br>
> >> > > at Python/ceval.c:2942<br>
> >> > > .<br>
> >> > > .<br>
> >> > > .<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Any suggestions are welcome.<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Amit Margalit<br>
> >> > > IBM XIV - Storage Reinvented<br>
> >> > > XIV-NAS Development Team<br>
> >> > > Tel. 03-689-7774<br>
> >> > > Fax. 03-689-7230<br>
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> >> ><br>
> >> > --<br>
> >> > Mathieu Desnoyers<br>
> >> > EfficiOS Inc.<br>
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