Re: [PATCH v1 03/11] perf: Allow for multiple ring buffers per event

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed May 07 2014 - 17:08:48 EST


> Then, when data inside that aux data store changes they should inject an
> PERF_RECORD_AUX to indicate this did happen, which ties it back into the
> normal event flow.

What happens when the aux buffer wraps? How would the client know
if the data belongs to this _AUX entry or some later one?

May need some extra sequence numbers in the mmap header and the aux
entry to handle this.

-Andi
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