Re: comments on Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >   10/ Group event buffer entry
> > 
> >        This is activated by setting the PERF_RECORD_GROUP in the record_type
> >        field.  With this bit set, the values of the other members of the
> >        group are stored sequentially in the buffer. To help figure out which
> >        value corresponds to which event, the current implementation also
> >        stores the raw encoding of the event.
> > 
> >        The event encoding does not help figure out which event the value refers
> >        to. There can be multiple events with the same code. This does fit the
> >        API model where events are identified by file descriptors.
> > 
> >        The file descriptor must be provided and not the raw encoding.
> 
> OK, sounds sensible.

This can't actually be done, fds can change, and there is no struct
file* to fd map.

If the config isn't good enough, the best we could do is something
unique per instance.