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Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode

From Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode
Date 2017-05-18 07:20 +0200
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> 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

-Andi

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[PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2017-05-18 06:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-18 07:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/7] perf tool: add meta-data header support for pipe-mode David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> - 2017-05-18 20:10 +0200

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