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

[Peter Zijlstra]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:04:04 +0800
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:26:25 +0100
> 
> perf_event: Eliminate raw->size
> 
> raw->size is not used, this patch just cleans it up.

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.

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