linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:31 -0800
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        acme@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anju T Sudhakar <anju@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of
 metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events

> > stack declarations of variable length arrays are not
> > a good thing.
> > 
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/749089/
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	bool evlist_used[perf_evlist->core.nr_entries] = {};
> 
> hum, I think we already have few of them in perf ;-)

For user space they don't really matter as long as the size is
not totally out of bound, it has a fairly large stack compared
to the kernel, and also is less security sensitive.

-Andi