linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] perf: disable PERF_RECORD

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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:26:30 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org,
	dsahern@...il.com, jolsa@...hat.com, ak@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perf: disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support

Em Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 07:32:15PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> 
> For now, we disable the extended MMAP record support (MMAP2).
> We have identified cases where it would not report the correct
> mapping information, clone(VM_CLONE) but with separate pids.
> We will revisit the support once we find a solution for this case.
> 
> The patch changes the kernel to return EINVAL if attr->mmap2
> is set. The patch also modifies the perf tool to use regular PERF_RECORD_MMAP
> for synthetic events and it also prevents the tool from requesting attr->mmap2
> mode because the kernel would reject it.
> 
> The support will be revisited once the kenrel interface is updated.
> 
> In V2, we reduce the patch to the strict minimum.
> In V3, we avoid calling perf_event_open() with mmap2 set because we
> know it will fail and require fallback retry.

Again it applied, but with some fuzz, which branch did you coded this
against? Testing...

[acme@zoo linux]$ patch -p1 < /wb/1
patching file kernel/events/core.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 6767 (offset -6 lines).
patching file tools/perf/util/event.c
patching file tools/perf/util/evsel.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 678 with fuzz 1.
[acme@zoo linux]$ 

- Arnaldo
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