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Date:	Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:43:49 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	eranian@...il.com
Cc:	Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix broken union in ' struct
 perf_event_mmap_page'

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:33:53PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:19:32AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> >> Can you point to any code that is fixed by the commit?
> >
> > I have some, but I don't think a lot of people use it.
> >
> > Would you be ok with something like the below? It should preserve
> > functionality for code that only cares about cap_usr_rdpmc (PAPI).
> >
> > Stephane, does libpfm use any of these?
> >
> Yes, there is an example using this. Need to verify it is not broken
> currently (self_count.c).

So if that only uses cap_usr_rdpmc, you have the same issue as Vince and
the proposed solutions would work for you too.

If you also use cap_usr_time we've a bit of a problem.
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