Re: [PATCH 02/19] perf: Add ability to attach user level registersdump to sample

[Stephane Eranian]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:41 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> Ok, yes that one. It would have been much nicer to follow the enum
>> order.
>
> Yes.. I should make a list of all the things we should've done
> differently. Maybe if that list grows long enough someone gets motivated
> enough to rev the format as a whole.
>
Yeah, that would be good.

I will soon post a patch to extend that format to make it possible to
have distinct sample_type per event and yet be able to parse them.
I am still waiting for Arnaldo to take my perf patches concerning pipe
mode first. Can't have too many patch sets in flight at the same time.

> It would be a tedious endeavour since you'd need to have both output
> paths available for a good while, but it might be worth it in the long
> run depending on how painful the current format becomes.

True. What we don't know however, it how many other tools are out
there using the kernel API directly.
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