On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> The difficulty in pipe mode is that information needs to be written >> sequentially to the pipe. Meta data headers are usually generated >> (and also expected) at the beginning of the file (or piped output). >> To solve this problem, we introduce new synthetic record types, >> one for each meta-data type. The approach is similar to what >> is *ALREADY* used for BUILD_ID and TRACING_DATA. > > The new headers need documentation in Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt Will do.
- [PATCH 5/7] perf header: use struct feat_fd for pr... David Carrillo-Cisneros
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- [PATCH 6/7] perf tool: make show-info in perf repo... David Carrillo-Cisneros
- [PATCH 3/7] perf header: use struct feat_fd for wr... David Carrillo-Cisneros
- Re: [PATCH 3/7] perf header: use struct feat_... Jiri Olsa
- Re: [PATCH 3/7] perf header: use struct f... David Carrillo-Cisneros
- [PATCH 2/7] perf util: add const modifier to buf i... David Carrillo-Cisneros
- Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header su... Andi Kleen
- Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data head... David Carrillo-Cisneros