From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753190Ab0JMHWc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:22:32 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41421 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753120Ab0JMHWb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:22:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] perf: Add ability to dump part of the user stack From: Peter Zijlstra To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Paul Mackerras , Stephane Eranian , Cyrill Gorcunov , Tom Zanussi , Masami Hiramatsu , Steven Rostedt , Robert Richter In-Reply-To: <1286946421-32202-4-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> References: <1286946421-32202-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1286946421-32202-4-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:22:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1286954537.29097.59.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 07:06 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h > @@ -227,6 +227,12 @@ struct perf_event_attr { > __u32 bp_type; > __u64 bp_addr; > __u64 bp_len; > + > + __u64 __reserved_2; > + __u64 __reserved_3; > + > + __u32 ustack_dump_size; > + __u32 __reserved_4; > }; Why add those two __u64 fields?