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Message-ID: <bd4cb8901003181429j235ac282pe0440f02b9138015@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:29:04 +0100
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org,
davem@...emloft.net, fweisbec@...il.com, robert.richter@....com,
perfmon2-devel@...ts.sf.net, eranian@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix ordering bug in perf_output_sample()
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:42 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> In order to parse a sample correctly based on the information
>> requested via sample_type, the kernel needs to save each component
>> in a known order. There is no type value saved with each component.
>> The current convention is that each component is saved according to
>> the order in enum perf_event_sample_format. But perf_output_sample()
>> was not completely following this convention, thereby making samples
>> impossible to parse without internal kernel knowledge.
>>
>> This patch puts things in the right order.
>
> NAK, not so actually, its in the order specified in the
> PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE comment.
>
And why is that order different than the one in the enum?
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