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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Simon Que <sque@chromium.org>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:10:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518051043.GA15563@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170518041602.28689-1-davidcc@google.com>

> The difficulty in pipe mode is that information needs to be written
> sequentially to the pipe. Meta data headers are usually generated
> (and also expected) at the beginning of the file (or piped output).
> To solve this problem, we introduce new synthetic record types,
> one for each meta-data type. The approach is similar to what
> is *ALREADY* used for BUILD_ID and TRACING_DATA.

The new headers need documentation in Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-18  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-18  4:15 [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] perf header: fail on write_padded error David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] perf util: add const modifier to buf in "writen" function David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] perf header: use struct feat_fd for write David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 18:02     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] perf header: use struct feat_fd for print David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] perf header: use struct feat_fd for process and read David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 18:02     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] perf tool: make show-info in perf report a tool attribute David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  4:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] perf tools: add feature header record to pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18 16:12   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 18:30     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 18:29     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2017-05-18 18:29     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-05-18  5:10 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-05-18 18:02   ` [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros

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