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Kan Liang 277ce1efa7 perf header: Add check for unexpected use of reserved membrs in event attr
The perf.data may be generated by a newer version of perf tool, which
support new input bits in attr, e.g. new bit for branch_sample_type.

The perf.data may be parsed by an older version of perf tool later.  The
old perf tool may parse the perf.data incorrectly. There is no warning
message for this case.

Current perf header never check for unknown input bits in attr.

When read the event desc from header, check the stored event attr.  The
reserved bits, sample type, read format and branch sample type will be
checked.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Gerasimov <pavel.gerasimov@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Slobodskoy <vitaly.slobodskoy@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200228163011.19358-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-03-09 21:43:24 -03:00
arch Merge remote-tracking branch 'acme/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2020-03-04 10:29:19 -03:00
block blk-mq: Remove some unused function arguments 2020-02-26 10:34:41 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity 2020-02-20 15:15:16 -08:00
Documentation ACPI fixes for 5.6-rc4 2020-02-28 09:02:18 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2020-03-02 06:41:41 -06:00
fs five small cifs/smb3 fixes, two for stable 2020-03-03 17:31:19 -06:00
include Merge remote-tracking branch 'acme/perf/urgent' into perf/core 2020-03-04 10:29:19 -03:00
init Tracing updates: 2020-02-26 10:34:42 -08:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
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sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.6 2020-02-18 13:33:39 +01:00
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virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.6, take #1 2020-02-28 11:50:06 +01:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS pci-v5.6-fixes-2 2020-02-28 11:51:53 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.6-rc4 2020-03-01 16:38:46 -06:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.