From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751338AbdEBLrJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2017 07:47:09 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:43492 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbdEBLrG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2017 07:47:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] perf: Add sizeof operator support To: Jon Masters , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1465922312-30064-1-git-send-email-jeremy.linton@arm.com> Cc: acme@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, namhyung@kernel.org, kapileshwar.singh@arm.com, scottwood@freescale.com, hekuang@huawei.com From: Jeremy Linton Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 06:47:04 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/30/2017 05:06 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > On 06/14/2016 12:38 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote: > >> There are a fair number of tracepoints in the kernel making >> use of the sizeof operator. Allow perf to understand some of >> those cases, and report a more informative error message for >> the ones it cannot understand. > > What's the status of this patch series? Are you planning to update? Hi, Well, this series is dead. The question remains how to solve the problem. As the maintainers (at least in the case of arm/kvm) aren't interested in fixing the individual trace-points, that leaves just Steves's suggestion. Which hasn't yet been done. So, I guess that leaves me.