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Message-Id: <201003050944.20032.jpihet@mvista.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:44:19 +0100
From: Jean Pihet <jpihet@...sta.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org,
eranian@...gle.com, robert.richter@....com, fweisbec@...il.com,
Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...ochip.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] perf: Generic perf_sample_data initialization
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 17:39:41 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on
> arm and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause
> crashes when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW.
>
> It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct
> initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure.
>
> CC: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...ochip.com>
> CC: Jean Pihet <jpihet@...sta.com>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> CC: stable@...nel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@...sta.com>
Thanks!
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