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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86: Basic Haswell LBR call stack support
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:11:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350987096.2768.108.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50862E02.6020002@intel.com>

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 13:41 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> On 10/22/2012 06:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 14:11 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> >> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> >> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> >> @@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
> >>         PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ABORT        = 1U << 7, /* transaction aborts */
> >>         PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_INTX         = 1U << 8, /* in transaction (flag) */
> >>         PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NOTX         = 1U << 9, /* not in transaction (flag) */
> >> +       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK   = 1U << 10, /* call stack */
> >>  
> >> -       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX          = 1U << 10, /* non-ABI */
> >> +       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX          = 1U << 11, /* non-ABI */
> >>  }; 
> > 
> > You add an ABI sample type without mentioning it in your changelog.. I
> > think I'll stop reading here.
> > 
> Ok, I will add the ABI change to the change log. Do you think we should hide this
> branch sample type from user?

Possibly not, I haven't really thought about it. But never hide an ABI
change. Explicitly mention it and preferably explain why you felt it
needed to extend the ABI.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-22  6:11 [PATCH 0/6] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86: Basic " Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22 10:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-22 11:23     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-10-23  5:31       ` Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22 13:45     ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-23  5:28     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22 10:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-22 13:49     ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-23  5:41     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-10-23 10:11       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-10-23 12:09       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-10-23 16:34       ` Andi Kleen
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf, x86: Introduce x86 special perf event context Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] perf, core: Pass perf_sample_data to perf_callchain() Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] perf, x86: Use LBR call stack to get user callchain Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  6:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] perf, x86: Discard zero length call entries in LBR call stack Yan, Zheng
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2012-10-22  5:57 [PATCH 0/6] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2012-10-22  5:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86: Basic " Yan, Zheng

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