Re: [PATCH] perf: fix perf_event.h header usage

From: Robert Richter
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 11:47:53 EST


On 04.01.11 10:44:39, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:30:01PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > This patch fixes the usage of the perf_event.h header file
> > between command modules and the supporting code in util.
> >
> > It is necessary to ensure that ALL files use the SAME
> > perf_event.h header from the kernel source tree.
> >
> > There were a couple of #include <linux/perf_event.h> mixed
> > with #include "../../perf_event.h".
> >
> > This caused issues on some distros because of mismatch
> > in the layout of struct perf_event_attr. That eventually
> > led perf stat to segfault.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, applying.

Isn't this valid for all <linux/*.h> header files?

-Robert

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