Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix incorrect header string

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28:53AM +0800, Wang Nan escreveu:
> Commit fbe96f29 (perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive)
> read '/proc/cpuinfo' to form cpu descriptor. For ARM, it finds
> 'Processor' field. It is correct when the patch merged, but due to
> commit b4b8f770 (ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print all online CPUs
> features), the corresponding information becomes 'model name' field.
> 
> This patch simply corrects it.

It doesn't :-)

It makes it work with kernels >= b4b8f770, and fail with older kernels.

We need to somehow figure out where the right information is regardless
of the kernel.

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/perf-sys.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
> index 937e432..4293970 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
>  #define mb()		((void(*)(void))0xffff0fa0)()
>  #define wmb()		((void(*)(void))0xffff0fa0)()
>  #define rmb()		((void(*)(void))0xffff0fa0)()
> -#define CPUINFO_PROC	"Processor"
> +#define CPUINFO_PROC	"model name"
>  #endif
>  
>  #ifdef __aarch64__
> -- 
> 1.8.4
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