Re: [GIT PULL 0/4] perf/core improvements

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
>         Please consider pulling after at least Ian and Peter acks it:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 perf/core
> 
> 	Peter already acked a previous version of this, so I left his acked by
> there, this new one is much simpler than the first one he acked, so I think
> he'll be happy with this one as well, Peter?
> 
> 	I tested it using the perf tools built from what is in tip/perf/urgent
> and it works as expected, i.e. the new fields are just discarded since they are
> stashed as a trailer in the MMAP, FORK, etc events, so old tools process new
> perf.data files just fine.
> 
> 	Also the new tools works on older kernels, also tested.
> 
> 	Ian, if you prefer, please test it before Ingo merges it.

Did so. Have some odd fallout:

    tracepoint event: type 65535

    data->tid 2621441 data->pid 9

Investigating. Please wait

	       tglx

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