Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf tools: Reorganize some structs to save space

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>]

Em Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:11:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 11:38 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > @@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ struct sample_data {
> >         u64 addr;
> >         u64 id;
> >         u64 stream_id;
> > -       u32 cpu;
> >         u64 period;
> > -       struct ip_callchain *callchain;
> > +       u32 cpu;
> >         u32 raw_size;
> >         void *raw_data;
> > +       struct ip_callchain *callchain;
> >  }; 
> 
> If that is a struct that is to match a kernel produced record then this
> is utterly broken.

No, it is not, it is filled in userspace:

tools/perf/util/event.c:

int event__parse_sample(event_t *event, u64 type, struct sample_data *data)
{
        u64 *array = event->sample.array;

        if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_IP) {
                data->ip = event->ip.ip;
                array++;
        }

        if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_TID) {
                u32 *p = (u32 *)array;
                data->pid = p[0];
                data->tid = p[1];
                array++;
        }

        if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_TIME) {
                data->time = *array;
                array++;
        }
<SNIP>

We can reorder it at will and decoupled from any kernel changes.

- Arnaldo