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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:05:06 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] perf tools: add meta-data header support in pipe
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On 5/15/12 7:34 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi, Stephane
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 13:28:10 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> This patch series adds meta-data support to perf record/report in pipe
>> mode:
>> 	perf record -o - foo | perf inject -b | perf report -i -
>>
>> We had meta-data (information about host configuration, perf tool version,...)
>> in regular (file) mode but it was lacking in pipe mode. This patch series fixes
>> this.
>>
>
> In addition to this change, I think it'd be great if we keep this
> meta-data somewhere for later use - I guess perf report and
> annotate on TUI, at least, will need it too. Just a suggestion :).
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>

It is there -- see perf-report header. It gets dropped on pipe mode b/c 
the meta-data is in the header.

David
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