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Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules

From Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules
Date 2016-01-15 20:00 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:59:48PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >> > +    *      u32                             filename_len;
>> >> > +    *      char                            filename[2+];
>> >
>> >> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> >
>> > except of course that sizeof(u32) == 4 :/
>
>> There is no padding here. Are you concerned about running out of bits
>> in filename_len?
>
> No, I just made a mess of it :-)
>
> filename_len should have been u16 and filename should then be 6+8n in
> size.
>
why don't you make it more explicit:
   u16 filename_len
   u16 extra_len

then it would be clear what is what, no field with dual meaning.
Now, that assumes that no pathname can be longer than 65535 bytes.

>> Any extension possible because header.size - sizeof(mmap3) -
>> filename_len sizing what's after filename, right?
>
> Right, current MMAP records use the remaining size as the filename
> length, but by explicitly specifying that we can add optional fields.
>
> These fields must be after filename_len, otherwise you'd not be able to
> find filename_len and you could not compute the extra size. And given
> alignment constraints it makes sense to do it after filename[].
>
> So suppose we wanted to also add atime and ctime, we could do.
>
>   PERF_RECORD_MMAP3 {
>     ...
>     u16 filename_len;
>     char filename[6+8n];
>
>     if (extra_size >= 16) {
>       u64 stime;
>       u64 ctime;
>     };
>   }
>
> or something like that.

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Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-07 23:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-07 23:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 00:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-08 00:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-08 19:10 +0100
          Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-08 19:20 +0100
            Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-11 18:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-11 19:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-11 21:10 +0100
              Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 11:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 12:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 13:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 14:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 15:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 16:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 16:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 17:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 17:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 18:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-13 11:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-13 13:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-14 12:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-14 12:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-15 03:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-15 10:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-15 20:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 20:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-15 22:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-15 22:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> - 2016-01-12 22:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-12 14:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 15:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 16:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-13 11:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-12 15:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-13 11:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-13 16:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 16:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-19 16:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 16:50 +0100
          Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-09 11:40 +0100
            Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> - 2016-01-11 10:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-11 12:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC] perf record: missing buildid for callstack modules Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> - 2016-01-11 13:00 +0100

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