Re: [PATCH] perf_counter: extensible perf_counter_attr

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 12:02 -0700, Corey Ashford wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Allow extending the perf_counter_attr structure by linking extended
> > structures to it.
> > 
> > Also, should we grow the directly reserved space in the structure a
> > little more?
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/perf_counter.h |    7 +++++++
> >  kernel/perf_counter.c        |    1 +
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
> > index 3586df8..781d8ce 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
> > @@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ struct perf_counter_attr {
> >  	__u32			__reserved_3;
> > 
> >  	__u64			__reserved_4;
> > +
> > +	struct perf_counter_attr_ext *ext_attrs;
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct perf_counter_attr_ext {
> > +	struct perf_counter_attr_ext 	*next;
> > +	__u64				perf_attr_ext_type;
> >  };
> 
> Let's say I want to extend the attributes by four 64-bit quantities... from the 
> above definition, I'd need four additional records chained together, right?  How 
> about something like this instead:

Ah, the idea was to do something like:

struct perf_counter_attr_feature {
	struct perf_counter_attr_ext	head;
	... more stuff ...
};

and set head.perf_attr_ext_type = PERF_ATTR_EXT_FEATURE