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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, acme@infradead.org,
	perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix errors path in perf_output_begin()
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:09:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274098175.5605.4661.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilJH8RnWjBIY7vrOnXi7w1_z8j9_abD-8tuwL-u@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 14:04 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> > So you want to preserve this state for when you munmap() and mmap()
> > again? The only user of data->lost is writing the PERF_RECORD_LOST
> > event, which only ever happens when you have pages, so counting it when
> > there's no pages seems futile.
> 
> You're right. But couldn't you report lost samples in the buffer header as well?

I guess you could, but what's the point? If you ask for sampling but
don't provide a buffer you don't get anything -- how's that a surprise?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-17 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 10:46 [PATCH] perf_events: fix errors path in perf_output_begin() Stephane Eranian
2010-05-17 11:04 ` John Kacur
2010-05-17 11:57   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-05-17 11:46 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-17 11:56   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-05-17 12:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-17 12:04       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-05-17 12:09         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-05-17 12:23           ` Stephane Eranian

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