Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] perf record: Record the first sample time and last sample time to perf file header

["Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>]

On 9/21/2017 11:21 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:18:42PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:12:32PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>>
>> SNIP
>>
>>> @@ -2647,11 +2681,22 @@ int perf_file_header__read(struct perf_file_header *header,
>>>  
>>>  	if (header->size != sizeof(*header)) {
>>>  		/* Support the previous format */
>>> -		if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header), adds_features))
>>> +		if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header), adds_features)) {
>>>  			bitmap_zero(header->adds_features, HEADER_FEAT_BITS);
>>> -		else
>>> +			header->first_sample_time = 0;
>>> +			header->last_sample_time = 0;
>>> +			format_feature = false;
>>> +			format_time = false;
>>> +		} else if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header),
>>> +				first_sample_time)) {
>>> +			header->first_sample_time = 0;
>>> +			header->last_sample_time = 0;
>>> +			format_time = false;
>>> +		} else
>>
>> ok, disregard my previou comment.. I should have read the full patch first ;-)
> 
> still using the feature looks better to me.. I think we could
> add some generic TLV data feature for cases like this
> 
> jirka
> 

Thanks for the comments!

I will check how to add generic TLV data feature to record the first sample time and last sample time.

Thanks
Jin Yao