Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] perf: Generic perf_sample_data initialization

Jean Pihet
2010-03-05T08:44:52Z

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 17:39:41 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This makes it easier to extend perf_sample_data and fixes a bug on
> arm and sparc, which failed to set ->raw to NULL, which can cause
> crashes when combined with PERF_SAMPLE_RAW.
>
> It also optimizes PowerPC and tracepoint, because the struct
> initialization is forced to zero out the whole structure.
>
> CC: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
> CC: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> CC: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Acked-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>

Thanks!