Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Handle PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE properly

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 06:55:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We removed event types from data file in following commits:
> >   6065210 perf tools: Remove event types framework completely
> >   44b3c57 perf tools: Remove event types from perf data file
> > 
> > We no longer need this information, because we can get it
> > directly from tracepoints.
> > 
> > But we still need to handle PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE
> > event for the sake of old perf data files created in pipe
> > mode like:
> > 
> >   $ perf.3.4 record -o - foo >perf.data
> >   $ perf.312 report -i - < perf.data
> > 
> > Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/session.c | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > index 0b39a48..5da6ce7 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > @@ -1008,6 +1008,12 @@ static int perf_session__process_user_event(struct perf_session *session, union
> >  		if (err == 0)
> >  			perf_session__set_id_hdr_size(session);
> >  		return err;
> > +	case PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Depreceated, but we need to handle it for sake
> > +		 * of old data files create in pipe mode.
> > +		 */
> 
> Two small speling nits:
> 
>  s/Depreceated
>   /Deprecated
> 
>  s/create
>   /created
> 
> Ack otherwise.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

ugh, my spell checker sux.. ;-\ acme, beer for each correction? ;-)

thanks,
jirka
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