Re: [PATCH 06/23] perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytesin sample

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:47:57PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip
> data within the perf ring buffer.
> 
> When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed
> place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data.
> 
> There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved
> size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes.
> 
> This is going to be usefull when storing the user stack dump,
> where we might end up with less data than we originally requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
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