[PATCH] Improve perf_event_open argument decoding

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:57:34AM +0100, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:04:57AM +0100, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
> >> * configure.ac: Add <linux/perf_event.h> check.
> >> * desc.c: Add sys_perf_event_open
> >
> > I've added missing bits to the changelog entry, fixed a typo and
> > applied this.  Thanks,
> 
> Are you open to a patch that decodes the perf_event_attr struct?
> 
> I didn't do it in this patch because the struct is pretty big,
> something like twenty fields and growing.  I'm not sure how to best
> present that in the output.

Most of big structs are abbreviated by default, it might be reasonable to
follow this convention and abbreviate perf_event_attr by default, too.


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ldv
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