On 14/08/13 15:48, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> The event stream is not always parsable because the format of a sample
> is dependent on the sample_type of the selected event. When there
> is more than one selected event and the sample_types are not the
> same then parsing becomes problematic. A sample can be matched to its
> selected event using the ID that is allocated when the event is opened.
> Unfortunately, to get the ID from the sample means first parsing it.
>
> This patch adds a new sample format bit PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFER that puts
> the ID at a fixed position so that the ID can be retrieved without
> parsing the sample. For sample events, that is the first position
> immediately after the header. For non-sample events, that is the last
> position.
>
> In this respect parsing samples requires that the sample_type and ID
> values are recorded. For example, perf tools records struct perf_event_attr
> and the IDs within the perf.data file. Those must be read first
> before it is possible to parse samples found later in the perf.data file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Forgot to add Peter's ack which is here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137629757013526&w=2
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