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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 10:45:13 EST


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.

- Arnaldo
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