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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:30:05 +0800 From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> CC: mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, paulus@...ba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lizf@...fujitsu.com, fweisbec@...il.com, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf_event: Eliminate raw->size Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 05:31 +0000, tip-bot for Xiao Guangrong wrote: >> Commit-ID: f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742 >> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742 >> Author: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com> >> AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:04:04 +0800 >> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> >> CommitDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:26:25 +0100 >> >> perf_event: Eliminate raw->size >> >> raw->size is not used, this patch just cleans it up. > > This patch feels wrong.. I would suspect it to be used to validate the > data parsing, like do we consume past the end and did we consume > everything. > But as i noticed in current code, it just use raw->data, maybe i miss something? what i do is just using 'data' instead of 'raw->data' :-( Thanks, Xiao > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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