Re: [PATCH 02/26] perf: Introduce mmap3 version of mmap event

From: peterz
Date: Mon Sep 14 2020 - 05:36:24 EST


On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:02:49PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Add new version of mmap event. The MMAP3 record is an
> augmented version of MMAP2, it adds build id value to
> identify the exact binary object behind memory map:
>
> struct {
> struct perf_event_header header;
>
> u32 pid, tid;
> u64 addr;
> u64 len;
> u64 pgoff;
> u32 maj;
> u32 min;
> u64 ino;
> u64 ino_generation;
> u32 prot, flags;
> u32 reserved;
> u8 buildid[20];
> char filename[];
> struct sample_id sample_id;
> };
>

So weren't there still open problems with mmap2 that also needed
addressing? I seem to have forgotten :/