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-rw-r--r--gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c19
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index b4398f6..600925f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-11-14 Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
+
+ * nat/linux-btrace.c (perf_event_read): Allow data_head < size.
+ * nat/linux-btrace.c (perf_event_read_all): Do not adjust size.
+
2016-11-12 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* rust-exp.y (super_name): Use std::vector.
diff --git a/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c b/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
index 5ac5db2..e4144c6 100644
--- a/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
+++ b/gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c
@@ -119,10 +119,24 @@ perf_event_read (const struct perf_event_buffer *pev, __u64 data_head,
if (size == 0)
return NULL;
+ /* We should never ask for more data than the buffer can hold. */
+ buffer_size = pev->size;
+ gdb_assert (size <= buffer_size);
+
+ /* If we ask for more data than we seem to have, we wrap around and read
+ data from the end of the buffer. This is already handled by the %
+ BUFFER_SIZE operation, below. Here, we just need to make sure that we
+ don't underflow.
+
+ Note that this is perfectly OK for perf event buffers where data_head
+ doesn'grow indefinitely and instead wraps around to remain within the
+ buffer's boundaries. */
+ if (data_head < size)
+ data_head += buffer_size;
+
gdb_assert (size <= data_head);
data_tail = data_head - size;
- buffer_size = pev->size;
begin = pev->mem;
start = begin + data_tail % buffer_size;
stop = begin + data_head % buffer_size;
@@ -153,10 +167,7 @@ perf_event_read_all (struct perf_event_buffer *pev, gdb_byte **data,
__u64 data_head;
data_head = *pev->data_head;
-
size = pev->size;
- if (data_head < size)
- size = (size_t) data_head;
*data = perf_event_read (pev, data_head, size);
*psize = size;