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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/3] perf: add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:19:17PM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:21:23PM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> >>
>> >> And please make the array the last item in the structure so that
>> >> expanding or contracting it does not affect the ability to read the rest
>> >> of the structure.
>> >
>> > Sorry, sample_id must be last, because hysterical crud :/
>> >
>> > (basically because that was the only way to add a field to records like
>> > PERF_RECORD_MMAP which used the record length to determine the
>> > filename[] length, yes I know, we won't ever do that again).
>>
>> Why does historical crud need to affect new records?
>
> Because now the userspace parser expects sample_id to be the tail
> field. Basically decoding a record now looks like:
>
> if (sample_id_all) {
> sample_id = (sample_id *)((char *)record + record->size - sizeof(sample_id));
> record->size -= sizeof(sample_id);
> }
> /* process record */
>
> We could of course create more exceptions..
>
>> Totally confused. This looks like a major mess.
>
> Not major, but yes, its ugly, but its also ABI :-(

Fair enough. I will just avert my eyes now and deal with my own challenges.

Eric

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