Re: [PATCH 04/12] perf: add @rq to perf_event_task_sched_out()

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-04T17:42:43Z

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 19:22 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 05/04/2010 07:11 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:38 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> Add @rq to perf_event_task_sched_out() so that its argument matches
> >> those of trace_sched_switch(). This will help unifying notifiers in
> >> sched.
> >
> > The alternative is dropping rq from the trace events, its not like
> > anybody outside sched.o can do anything sensible with it anyway.
>
> The comment in include/trace/events/sched.h says...
>
> * (NOTE: the 'rq' argument is not used by generic trace events,
> * but used by the latency tracer plugin. )
>
> So, I left it there. It would be great if all those @rq params can be
> removed tho. The latency tracer thing needs it, right?

I had a quick look but couldn't actually find anything.