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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
	eranian@google.com, robert.richter@amd.com,
	Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>,
	Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] perf: Generic perf_sample_data initialization
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:14:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303211419.GE5194@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100303164306.222595079@chello.nl>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:39:41PM +0100, 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>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03 16:39 [RFC][PATCH 00/11] Another stab at PEBS and LBR support Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/11] perf, x86: Remove superfluous arguments to x86_perf_event_set_period() Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/11] perf, x86: Remove superfluous arguments to x86_perf_event_update() Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/11] perf, x86: Change x86_pmu.{enable,disable} calling convention Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/11] perf, x86: Use unlocked bitops Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/11] perf: Generic perf_sample_data initialization Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 16:49   ` David Miller
2010-03-03 21:14   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-03-05  8:44   ` Jean Pihet
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/11] perf, x86: PEBS infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 17:38   ` Robert Richter
2010-03-03 17:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04  8:50       ` Robert Richter
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/11] perf: Provide PERF_SAMPLE_REGS Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 17:30   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-03 17:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 17:49       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-03 17:55         ` David Miller
2010-03-03 18:18           ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-03 19:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04  2:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-04 12:58             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-03 22:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-04  8:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 11:04       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/11] perf, x86: Implement simple LBR support Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 21:52   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-04  8:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 21:57   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-04  8:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 17:54       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-04 18:18         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 20:23           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-04 20:57             ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/11] perf, x86: Implement PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 21:08   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/11] perf, x86: use LBR for PEBS IP+1 fixup Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 18:05   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-03 19:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-03 21:11       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-03 21:50         ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-04  8:57           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-09  1:41             ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-03 16:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/11] perf, x86: Clean up IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES usage Peter Zijlstra

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