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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-trace.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index c907e7e41a7..c3caabbe18f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -298,7 +298,22 @@ static struct syscall *trace__syscall_info(struct trace *trace,
int id = perf_evsel__intval(evsel, sample, "id");
if (id < 0) {
- fprintf(trace->output, "Invalid syscall %d id, skipping...\n", id);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: Noticed on x86_64, reproduced as far back as 3.0.36, haven't tried
+ * before that, leaving at a higher verbosity level till that is
+ * explained. Reproduced with plain ftrace with:
+ *
+ * echo 1 > /t/events/raw_syscalls/sys_exit/enable
+ * grep "NR -1 " /t/trace_pipe
+ *
+ * After generating some load on the machine.
+ */
+ if (verbose > 1) {
+ static u64 n;
+ fprintf(trace->output, "Invalid syscall %d id, skipping (%s, %" PRIu64 ") ...\n",
+ id, perf_evsel__name(evsel), ++n);
+ }
return NULL;
}