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<title>perf header: Fixup reading of HEADER_NRCPUS feature</title>
<updated>2016-04-27T10:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-11T15:36:12+00:00</published>
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commit caa470475d9b59eeff093ae650800d34612c4379 upstream.

The original patch introducing this header wrote the number of CPUs available
and online in one order and then swapped those values when reading, fix it.

Before:

  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 3
  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 2

After the fix, bringing back the CPUs online:

  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 2
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 3
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 4

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: fbe96f29ce4b ("perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150911153323.GP23511@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: fix it by saving values in an array and then print
 it in reverse order]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit caa470475d9b59eeff093ae650800d34612c4379 upstream.

The original patch introducing this header wrote the number of CPUs available
and online in one order and then swapped those values when reading, fix it.

Before:

  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 3
  # echo 0 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 2

After the fix, bringing back the CPUs online:

  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 2
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 3
  # nrcpus avail : 4
  # echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # perf record usleep 1
  # perf report --header-only | grep 'nrcpus \(online\|avail\)'
  # nrcpus online : 4
  # nrcpus avail : 4

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: fbe96f29ce4b ("perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150911153323.GP23511@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: fix it by saving values in an array and then print
 it in reverse order]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf build-id: Fix filename size calculation</title>
<updated>2012-05-01T17:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-01T14:19:36+00:00</published>
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The filename is a pointer variable so the sizeof(filename) will return
length of a pointer. Fix it by using 'size'.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335881976-3282-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The filename is a pointer variable so the sizeof(filename) will return
length of a pointer. Fix it by using 'size'.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335881976-3282-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix various casting issues for 32 bits</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T18:11:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-20T18:15:39+00:00</published>
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- util/parse-events.c(parse_events_add_breakpoint)
  need to use unsigned long instead of u64, otherwise
  we get following gcc error on 32 bits:
     error: cast from pointer to integer of different size

- util/header.c(print_event_desc)
  cannot retype to signed type, otherwise we get following
  gcc error on 32 bits:
     error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Ashford &lt;cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332267341-26338-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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- util/parse-events.c(parse_events_add_breakpoint)
  need to use unsigned long instead of u64, otherwise
  we get following gcc error on 32 bits:
     error: cast from pointer to integer of different size

- util/header.c(print_event_desc)
  cannot retype to signed type, otherwise we get following
  gcc error on 32 bits:
     error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Corey Ashford &lt;cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332267341-26338-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T18:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T18:09:08+00:00</published>
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Merge Reason: to pick the fix:

 commit e7f01d1
     perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Merge Reason: to pick the fix:

 commit e7f01d1
     perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable</title>
<updated>2012-03-14T15:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-14T15:29:29+00:00</published>
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Several places were expecting that the value returned was the number of
characters printed, not what would be printed if there was space.

Fix it by using the scnprintf and vscnprintf variants we inherited from
the kernel sources.

Some corner cases where the number of printed characters were not
accounted were fixed too.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yanmin Zhang &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kwxo2eh29cxmd8ilixi2005x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Several places were expecting that the value returned was the number of
characters printed, not what would be printed if there was space.

Fix it by using the scnprintf and vscnprintf variants we inherited from
the kernel sources.

Some corner cases where the number of printed characters were not
accounted were fixed too.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yanmin Zhang &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kwxo2eh29cxmd8ilixi2005x@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-08T22:47:46+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new feature bit, namely,
HEADER_BRANCH_STACK.  When present, it indicates
that sample records may contain branch stack.

This could be useful to a viewer to switch to
branch mode without having to parse all the
samples or without a specific cmdline option.

This will be used in a subsequent patch to
enhance perf report with branch stacks.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch adds a new feature bit, namely,
HEADER_BRANCH_STACK.  When present, it indicates
that sample records may contain branch stack.

This could be useful to a viewer to switch to
branch mode without having to parse all the
samples or without a specific cmdline option.

This will be used in a subsequent patch to
enhance perf report with branch stacks.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331246868-19905-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T22:21:08+00:00</published>
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This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data
files.  Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE
signature.

For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but
without comparing their header-&gt;attr_size with the
tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use
a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era.

We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find
a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file
format".

This is also done for the pipe-mode file format.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-19-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patches provides a way to handle legacy perf.data
files.  Legacy files are those using the older PERFFILE
signature.

For those, it is still necessary to detect endianness but
without comparing their header-&gt;attr_size with the
tool's own version as it may be different. Instead, we use
a reference table for all known sizes from the legacy era.

We try all the combinations for sizes and endianness. If we find
a match, we proceed, otherwise we return: "incompatible file
format".

This is also done for the pipe-mode file format.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-19-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T22:21:07+00:00</published>
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This patches cleans up local variable types for msz and ret.
They need to be size_t and ssize_t respectively.

It also fixes a bug whereby perf would not read attr struct
with a different size than what it knows about.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-18-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patches cleans up local variable types for msz and ret.
They need to be size_t and ssize_t respectively.

It also fixes a bug whereby perf would not read attr struct
with a different size than what it knows about.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-18-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T22:21:06+00:00</published>
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This patch allows perf to process perf.data files generated
using an ABI that has a different perf_event_attr struct size,
i.e., a different ABI version.

The perf_event_attr can be extended, yet perf needs to cope with
older perf.data files. Similarly, perf must be able to cope with
a perf.data file which is using a newer version of the ABI than
what it knows about.

This patch adds read_attr(), a routine that reads a
perf_event_attr struct from a file incrementally based on its
advertised size. If the on-file struct is smaller than what perf
knows, then the extra fields are zeroed. If the on-file struct
is bigger, then perf only uses what it knows about, the rest is
skipped.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-17-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch allows perf to process perf.data files generated
using an ABI that has a different perf_event_attr struct size,
i.e., a different ABI version.

The perf_event_attr can be extended, yet perf needs to cope with
older perf.data files. Similarly, perf must be able to cope with
a perf.data file which is using a newer version of the ABI than
what it knows about.

This patch adds read_attr(), a routine that reads a
perf_event_attr struct from a file incrementally based on its
advertised size. If the on-file struct is smaller than what perf
knows, then the extra fields are zeroed. If the on-file struct
is bigger, then perf only uses what it knows about, the rest is
skipped.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-17-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Factor out feature op to process header sections</title>
<updated>2012-02-14T01:33:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-10T14:41:56+00:00</published>
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There is individual code for each feature to process header sections.

Adding a function pointer .process to struct feature_ops for keeping the
implementation in separate functions. Code to process header sections is
now a generic function.

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328884916-5901-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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There is individual code for each feature to process header sections.

Adding a function pointer .process to struct feature_ops for keeping the
implementation in separate functions. Code to process header sections is
now a generic function.

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328884916-5901-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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