Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759003AbZLGIOT (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:14:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758882AbZLGIOS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:14:18 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58412 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758880AbZLGIOS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:14:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf_event: Eliminate raw->size From: Peter Zijlstra To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <4B1C8CC4.4050007@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:13:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1260173629.8223.1068.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 05:31 +0000, tip-bot for Xiao Guangrong wrote: > Commit-ID: f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f48f669d42e133db839af16656fd720107ef6742 > Author: Xiao Guangrong > AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:04:04 +0800 > Committer: Ingo Molnar > CommitDate: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:26:25 +0100 > > perf_event: Eliminate raw->size > > raw->size is not used, this patch just cleans it up. This patch feels wrong.. I would suspect it to be used to validate the data parsing, like do we consume past the end and did we consume everything. -- 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/