Re: [PATCH] perf: disable mmap2 support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> wrote:

> Em Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:17:43PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu:

> > This patch disables the mmap2 record format support for now. The 
> > support needs a bit more work to cover VM_CLONE cases.
> > 
> > The patch leaves attr->mmap2 defined, but returns an error if it is 
> > set. That ensures no PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 record can be generated. Yet it 
> > minimizes the reverts in the perf tool.
> 
> Would be interesting to have a simple new tool that would detect all the 
> mmaps that are shared in a given perf.data file, using the 
> PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 information, and that tool should come together with 
> the reworked kernel ABI, showing how it is used.

Indeed. Let's make that a requirement for the next round of mmap2 patches. 

Issues like this is really why I hate not getting a fully functional 
usecase together with a new ABI - it's _so_ easy to come up with something 
subtly (or not so subtly) incomplete.

> A 'perf test' entry, based on the test programs you guys are using to 
> test this functionality would be even better, showing that all cases 
> you've been striving to cover are in fact covered by the new ABI.

That too, in addition to an actual tool that people can use.

Thanks,

	Ingo