On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:56:01PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > > There's events where this isn't a possible location; take PERF_RECORD_MMAP > > for > > instance; the tail is the complete filename. > > PERF_RECORD_MMAP falls in the category I have called non-sample events. > Those events are appended with an ID sample. perf tools parses the ID > sample backwards from header.size. So the ID is at the last position > relative to header.size
But why? Why make it different per PERF_RECORD type? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
