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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>,
	acme@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200210180031.GY302770@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200210121135.GI1907700@krava>

> > stack declarations of variable length arrays are not
> > a good thing.
> > 
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/749089/
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	bool evlist_used[perf_evlist->core.nr_entries] = {};
> 
> hum, I think we already have few of them in perf ;-)

For user space they don't really matter as long as the size is
not totally out of bound, it has a fairly large stack compared
to the kernel, and also is less security sensitive.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-31  5:25 [PATCH v3] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events Kajol Jain
2020-02-06 18:45 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-06 18:58   ` Joe Perches
2020-02-10 12:11     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 18:00       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2020-02-11 11:20       ` kajoljain
2020-02-11 13:41         ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-06 20:10   ` Andi Kleen

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