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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Xu, Anhua" <anhua.xu@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perf tools: interface for improved PEBS ABI can accept wrong parameter
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:28:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318962501.14880.6.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111018181943.GC21666@elte.hu>

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 20:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > +#define SAMPLE_IP_MAX        3 
> >                               precise_ip     :  2, /* skid constraint       */
> >                               mmap_data      :  1, /* non-exec mmap data    */
> >                               sample_id_all  :  1, /* sample_type all events */
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> > index 928918b..a2068cc 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> > @@ -775,7 +775,10 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
> >       attr->exclude_user   = eu;
> >       attr->exclude_kernel = ek;
> >       attr->exclude_hv     = eh;
> > -     attr->precise_ip     = precise;
> > +     if ( precise < SAMPLE_IP_MAX )
> > +             attr->precise_ip = precise;
> > +     else
> > +             return -1; 

That name is horrid, how about PRECISE_IP_MAX? Also, I suspect acme will
want a better error return than -1, but I'll leave that up to him.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-18 14:31 Xu, Anhua
2011-10-18 18:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-18 18:28   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-10-19  2:23     ` Xu, Anhua
2011-10-19  3:06       ` Chen Gong
2011-10-19 14:15       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-10-23 17:07         ` Xu, Anhua
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-18 14:20 Xu, Anhua

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