Re: [BUG] perf_event: sampling buffer format cannot handlemulti-event sampling

[Stephane Eranian]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 21:16 +0000, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> > Or simply don't mix different sample_types in the same buffer?
>> >
>> Does the kernel disallow this when you merge the output via that
>> ioctl()?
>
> No, it will happily comply and provide you with hard to parse output.
> Just don't do that if you're not willing to untangle it ;-)
But even if you wanted, you could not, that was my point.

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