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From: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>,
	"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"acme@kernel.org" <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
	"alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com" 
	<alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	"jolsa@redhat.com" <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	"namhyung@kernel.org" <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/4] tracing/probe: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE ioctl
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:54:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E9CB8C05-8972-4454-9D19-FA2D0D94F32D@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822074737.GG2349@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Hi Peter, 

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 12:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 06:43:49PM +0000, Yonghong Song wrote:
>> On 8/21/19 11:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
>>> So extending PERF_RECORD_LOST doesn't work. But PERF_FORMAT_LOST might
>>> still work fine; but you get to implement it for all software events.
>> 
>> Could you give more specifics about PERF_FORMAT_LOST? Googling 
>> "PERF_FORMAT_LOST" only yields two emails which we are discussing here :-(
> 
> Look at what the other PERF_FORMAT_ flags do? Basically it is adding a
> field to the read(2) output.

Do we need to implement PERF_FORMAT_LOST for all software events? If user
space asks for PERF_FORMAT_LOST for events that do not support it, can we
just fail sys_perf_event_open()?

Thanks,
Song


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16 22:31 [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/4] tracing/probe: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE Daniel Xu
2019-08-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/4] tracing/probe: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE ioctl Daniel Xu
2019-08-19 18:22   ` kbuild test robot
2019-08-20  1:26   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-20  2:34     ` Daniel Xu
2019-08-20  2:52       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-20  2:04   ` kbuild test robot
2019-08-20 14:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-20 17:58     ` Daniel Xu
2019-08-21 11:08       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-21 16:54         ` Yonghong Song
2019-08-21 18:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-21 18:43             ` Yonghong Song
2019-08-21 20:04               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-22  7:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-22  7:54                 ` Song Liu [this message]
2019-08-22  9:05                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-22 21:08                     ` Daniel Xu
2019-08-21 20:07           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-08-21 22:10             ` Yonghong Song
2019-08-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: Add helpers to extract perf fd from bpf_link Daniel Xu
2019-08-19 17:45   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-08-19 21:30     ` Daniel Xu
2019-08-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 3/4] tracing/probe: Sync perf_event.h to tools Daniel Xu
2019-08-16 22:31 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 4/4] tracing/probe: Add self test for PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE Daniel Xu

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