Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf_event: Eliminate raw->size

Xiao Guangrong
2009-12-07T08:31:44Z

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 05:31 +0000, tip-bot for Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> Commit-ID: f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742
>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742
>> Author: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:04:04 +0800
>> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>> CommitDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:26:25 +0100
>>
>> perf_event: Eliminate raw->size
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>> raw->size is not used, this patch just cleans it up.
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> This patch feels wrong.. I would suspect it to be used to validate the
> data parsing, like do we consume past the end and did we consume
> everything.
>

But as i noticed in current code, it just use raw->data, maybe i miss something?
what i do is just using 'data' instead of 'raw->data' :-(

Thanks,
Xiao

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