On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 07:29:31AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:

SNIP

>  
> +static void print_cpu_attributes(struct perf_header *ph, int fd 
> __maybe_unused, FILE *fp)
> +{
> +     fprintf(fp, "# CPU attributes: max frequency = %lu KHz\n", 
> ph->env.cpu_attr[PERF_HEADER_CPU_MAX_FREQ]);
> +}
> +
>  static void print_branch_stack(struct perf_header *ph __maybe_unused,
>                              int fd __maybe_unused, FILE *fp)
>  {
> @@ -1471,6 +1486,25 @@ static int process_cpuid(struct perf_file_section 
> *section __maybe_unused,
>       return ph->env.cpuid ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
>  }
>  
> +static int process_cpu_attributes(struct perf_file_section *section 
> __maybe_unused,
> +                               struct perf_header *ph, int fd,
> +                               void *data __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +     ssize_t ret;
> +     u64 nr;
> +
> +     ret = readn(fd, &nr, sizeof(nr));
> +     if (ret != sizeof(nr))
> +             return -1;

you need to ensure backward compatibility, like new perf with
this section extended will be able to read old (current)
perf.data file.. and the other way round probably too

adding a identifier 'tag' for each value might do it

jirka
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