linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix write

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Message-ID: <1263994901.4283.1060.camel@laptop>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:41:41 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix write_event()

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 21:34 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> We parse the event while it's read from mmap buffer in
> write_event(), but sometimes the event will straddles the
> mmap boundary, we should handle this case
> 
> And if we record events(such as perf kmem/sched) for long
> times, Ctrl + C can't interrupt it just for this reason

Uhm, how why? it didn't used to know about events and just copied the
data.

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