Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix write_event()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Jan 31 2010 - 03:33:21 EST



* Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We parse the event while it's read from mmap buffer in
> write_event(), but sometimes the event will straddles the
> mmap boundary, we should handle this case
>
> And if we record events(such as perf kmem/sched) for long
> times, Ctrl + C can't interrupt it just for this reason
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------

Note, i've reverted the original instead, via:

a8e6f73: Revert "perf record: Intercept all events"

As Peter said it, it is fundamentally wrong for perf record to touch the data
stream in the common case. Arnaldo, cannot we use some other method for perf
archive's needs? Worst-case we can do an optional parsing of the data stream
although we should first try hard to find a generic method ...

Ingo
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