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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf tools: Exit recording if events have non matching sample type
    Em Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:22:35PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
    > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:05:48PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
    > > Em Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
    > > > The event processing relies on all events having the same sample_type.
    > > >
    > > > This is being checked when the session is being opened read only.
    > > > It also needs to be checked when we do record, since events could be
    > > > read during processing build IDs at the end of the record command.
    > > >
    > > > If we process events with different sample_type the processing might
    > > > skip some events or hang.
    > > >
    > > > Following command hangs on my setup:
    > > > ./perf record -o perf.data -e ext4:ext4_mb_new_group_pa \
    > > > -e LLC-loads -- date '+%F'
    > > >
    > > > because hardware and tracepoint events have different sample type.
    > > >
    > > > With the patch applied the record command displays
    > > > "Non matching sample_type" message and exits.
    > >
    > > That is way too cryptic :-\
    > >
    > > What is that makes the sample type not match in this case? Can we make
    > > it match instead?
    > >
    > > This is something to be properly fixed by _allowing_ non matching sample
    > > types, the evsel/evlist abstractions are getting we close but not there
    > > yet, multiple files in a perf.data/ directory are needed.
    > >
    > > Till then can you check if we can make it match or else just say that
    > > the mix of events is not yet supported, please collect them in different
    > > sessions or something along those lines?
    > >
    > > - Arnaldo
    > hi,
    > thanks for comments..
    > I just was this got in the tip tree git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip
    >
    > perf tools: Exit record if events have non matching sample type
    > commit 6f9a4869e15de8af2fd715af876bc3e6b00757a7
    > Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    > Date: Thu Sep 29 19:49:50 2011 +0200
    >
    > I've read the email trail.. I'll check the sources and try to come up
    > with something.. ;)

    Couldn't understand, will check if the patch was already applied, if so,
    why bother commenting, right? :-)

    - Arnaldo


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