Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] perf record: Record the first sample time and last sample time to perf file header

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 11:21:17 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:18:42PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:12:32PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > @@ -2647,11 +2681,22 @@ int perf_file_header__read(struct perf_file_header *header,
> >
> > if (header->size != sizeof(*header)) {
> > /* Support the previous format */
> > - if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header), adds_features))
> > + if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header), adds_features)) {
> > bitmap_zero(header->adds_features, HEADER_FEAT_BITS);
> > - else
> > + header->first_sample_time = 0;
> > + header->last_sample_time = 0;
> > + format_feature = false;
> > + format_time = false;
> > + } else if (header->size == offsetof(typeof(*header),
> > + first_sample_time)) {
> > + header->first_sample_time = 0;
> > + header->last_sample_time = 0;
> > + format_time = false;
> > + } else
>
> ok, disregard my previou comment.. I should have read the full patch first ;-)

still using the feature looks better to me.. I think we could
add some generic TLV data feature for cases like this

jirka