Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755671AbZFHV34 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:29:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754502AbZFHV3s (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:29:48 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:46910 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754500AbZFHV3s (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:29:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2D82CE.9000206@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:29:50 -0700 From: Corey Ashford User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_counter: extensible perf_counter_attr References: <1244481941.13761.9119.camel@twins> <4A2D6041.4050309@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1244490680.6691.1.camel@laptop> <4A2D8011.9050502@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1244496223.6691.2.camel@laptop> In-Reply-To: <1244496223.6691.2.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 19 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:18 -0700, Corey Ashford wrote: >> pca.ext_attrs = &feature.head; /* secretly know that there's data that lies past >> the attr struct header */ > > Right, except its not so very secret since we have the type field > telling us. I see. Thanks for the explanation. Looks like a good plan to me! - Corey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/