Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] perf-events: Add support for supplementaryevent registers

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 05:32:37 EST


On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 08:48 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> > __u32 bp_type;
> >> > - __u64 bp_addr;
> >> > - __u64 bp_len;
> >> > + union {
> >> > + __u64 bp_addr;
> >> > + __u64 config1; /* extension of config0 */
> >> > + };
> >> > + union {
> >> > + __u64 bp_len;
> >> > + __u64 config2; /* extension of config1 */
> >> > + };
> >> > };
> >> >
> >> I don't see where those config0 or config1 are coming from.
> >
> > config0 means perf_event_attr::config.
> >
> yes.
>
> > Peter suggested to extend the attr config space.
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129838808907525&w=2
> >
> Ok, I get it, it is cascading. that's fine.

I initially put config and config0 in a union, but that made compilation
fail and fixing that up vs the benefit of actually having a config0,
which seemed near 0, led me to drop that part. Forgot to update the
comment though ;-)

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