linux-kernel - Re: [patch] perf_event_open.2: PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:14:56 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] perf_event_open.2:
 PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIMEOUT

Hi Vince,

On 10/17/2016 04:50 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
> 
> Linux 4.2 reserved a new bit from the misc field in the perf_event_open
> mmap sample buffer:
> PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIMEOUT
> 
> Despite being reserved in the public include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> header file, this bit is never set by the kernel, rather it is used
> internally by the userspace "perf" utility to indicate that when
> attempting to parse all of the /proc/xxx/maps files for the sample
> it ended up taking too long so the scan was aborted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>

Thanks. Applied!

Cheers,

Michael


> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> index fa8b1bd..59ad289 100644
> --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
> +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> @@ -1822,6 +1822,14 @@ See also
>  .BR PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXT_RESERVED " (since Linux 2.6.35)"
>  .\" commit 1676b8a077c352085d52578fb4f29350b58b6e74
>  This indicates there is extended data available (currently not used).
> +.TP
> +.B PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIMEOUT
> +.\" commit 930e6fcd2bcce9bcd9d4aa7e755678d33f3fe6f4
> +This bit is not set by the kernel.
> +It is reserved for the userspace perf utility to indicate that
> +.I /proc/xxx/maps
> +parsing was taking too long and stopped and thus the mmap
> +records may be truncated.
>  .RE
>  .TP
>  .I type
> 


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Michael Kerrisk
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