Re: [PATCH 04/16] perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 21:32 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> @@ -173,6 +174,15 @@ enum perf_sample_regs {
>  };
>  
>  /*
> + * Values for sample_stack when PERF_SAMPLE_STACK is set.
> + * Defines stack dump to be attached to the sample.
> + */
> +enum perf_sample_stack {
> +       PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER  = 1U << 0, /* user stack */
> +       PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_MAX   = 1U << 1, /* non-ABI */
> +};
> +
> +/*
>   * The format of the data returned by read() on a perf event fd,
>   * as specified by attr.read_format:
>   *
> @@ -291,6 +301,14 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>          * See asm/perf_regs.h for details.
>          */
>         __u64   sample_regs_user;
> +
> +       __u64   sample_stack; /* enum perf_sample_stack */
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Defines size of the user stack to dump on samples,
> +        * for sample_stack PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER settings.
> +        */
> +       __u64   sample_stack_user;
>  }; 

And here we have a similarly weird set-up. If you're ever going to add
another type, you have to make another __u64 since clearly another type
cannot use sample_stack_user per the name.

Thus, if you get another size variable you might as well use that to
discover the state that is now sample_stack.