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oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #662778]

Thu, 31 March 2011 17:59

Eclipse User

Trying to use the OProfile plugin with Eclipse 3.6.2 on Archlinux x86_64. As far as I can tell, OProfile works from the command line.

The plugin itself sometimes seems to work when I run my application with no inputs in which case it just prints out its usage statement and then exits. Sometimes the OProfile tab doesn't come up at all, but sometimes it comes up saying either that no samples were found or it shows one sample in some random function. This seems to make sense as it doesn't take very long for the program to print out its usage statement.

However, profiling any more substantial a run (e.g. still < 1 second) leads to a progress dialog popping up after it has finished which says "Parsing OProfile Data". It doesn't seem to be using any CPU or accessing the harddrive, and it stays at 0% with the Cancel button grayed-out indefinitely.

Any ideas?

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #662797 is a reply to message #662778]

Thu, 31 March 2011 21:07

Eclipse User

Additionally, when it's hung, I see

opreport -X --details

running. If I kill that process, the progress dialog closes and the OProfile tab reports "No profiling data is on the system."

If I run that command myself in the terminal, I get a lot of data but it finishes/exits more or less immediately. Dunno why it'd hang when run by eclipse.

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #662802 is a reply to message #662778]

Thu, 31 March 2011 22:03

Eclipse User

So, it's not a problem w/ opreport itself. I can replace the opreport binary with a bash script that just does

cat opout

where opout is the output I generate by running opreport -X -details on the command line and it still hangs. However, it actually works if I trim down the output (remove some of the data segments at the end).

So, I'm currently thinking that the issue is with the handing of opreport's input/output streams by the plugin. This happens in org.eclipse.linuxtools.oprofile.core.linux.OpxmlRunner around line 218. I think the plugin needs to be reading opreport's output as it runs instead of waiting for it to terminate. If opreport's output fills up the inputstream's buffer, it'll cause the hang.

From http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/P rocess.html :
Because some native platforms only provide limited buffer size for standard input and output streams, failure to promptly write the input stream or read the output stream of the subprocess may cause the subprocess to block, and even deadlock.

I'll try to test a patch myself, altho I'm not entirely clear on how to turn this source code into an eclipse plugin...

[Updated on: Thu, 31 March 2011 22:48] by Moderator

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #662814 is a reply to message #662778]

Fri, 01 April 2011 00:38

Eclipse User

Yea, that was it. Here's an updated OpxmlRunner.java. Changes were made in handleModelData and getEventNames.

http://pastebin.com/Yaqkj5Aa

Maybe I should make a bug report or something..

[Updated on: Fri, 01 April 2011 00:38] by Moderator

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #663016 is a reply to message #662778]

Fri, 01 April 2011 23:25

Eclipse User

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=341621

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #663529 is a reply to message #662778]

Tue, 05 April 2011 10:00

Eclipse User

Thanks for finding and debugging this! Your work is very much appreciated. I'll follow up on the bug once the fix is pushed.

--Severin

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #698272 is a reply to message #662778]

Tue, 19 July 2011 03:29

Eclipse User

I have the same problem, how can I install this patch?

Thanks!

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #698685 is a reply to message #698272]

Tue, 19 July 2011 20:55

Eclipse User

Give me a few days and I'll try to get this fix in. After that it should be available via our nightly update-site.

--Severin

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #699057 is a reply to message #698685]

Wed, 20 July 2011 14:24

Eclipse User

Fix pushed. It should be in updates-nightly by tomorrow. Let me know if that works for you. Thanks!

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #699791 is a reply to message #699057]

Fri, 22 July 2011 06:08

Eclipse User

Is not yet available today (download.eclipse.org/technology/linuxtools/updates-nightly)
There are another repository to download it?

Thank you so much for your help.

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #699846 is a reply to message #699791]

Fri, 22 July 2011 09:09

Eclipse User

Sorry about this. Try this repository from our hudson builds instead:

https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Tycho + Maven/job/linuxtools-master/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/releng/org.eclipse.linuxtools.releng-site/target/repository/

Note that you need to make sure that the spaces in the URL are NOT encoded as %20 when entering the URL as repo location for a newly added repository in p2.

Thanks,
Severin

Re: oprofile: hangs on Parsing OProfile Data [message #702492 is a reply to message #662778]

Tue, 26 July 2011 08:51

Eclipse User

Thanks Severin it works perfectly!

Thank you so much for your help.

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