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* [PATCH 1/1] tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h with the kernel sources
@ 2022-02-09 17:38 arnaldo.melo
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From: arnaldo.melo @ 2022-02-09 17:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marco Elver; +Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Linux Kernel Mailing List

Just FYI, carrying this in my tree:

---

To pick the trivial change in:

  ddecd22878601a60 ("perf: uapi: Document perf_event_attr::sig_data truncation on 32 bit architectures")

Just adds a comment.

This silences this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
  diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 1b65042ab1db8df4..82858b697c05a1d2 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -465,6 +465,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 	/*
 	 * User provided data if sigtrap=1, passed back to user via
 	 * siginfo_t::si_perf_data, e.g. to permit user to identify the event.
+	 * Note, siginfo_t::si_perf_data is long-sized, and sig_data will be
+	 * truncated accordingly on 32 bit architectures.
 	 */
 	__u64	sig_data;
 };
-- 
2.34.1


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