On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:42:11PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote: > > 1. I'm wrong and the record doesn't have to be padded to make it 8 bytes > aligned. Then I can drop the additional size field. No, you're right, we're supposed to stay 8 byte aligned. > 2. I could impose a limitation on the prctl API that the data size must > be 8 bytes aligned. Bad idea in my opinion, I'd rather not. Agreed. > 3. The additional size (for the data part) field stays. Notice that > PERF_SAMPLE_RAW has it as well :-) Right, with binary data there is no other day. With \0 terminated strings there won't be a problem, but I think we decided we wanted to allow any binary blow. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
