Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Add persistent events

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:02:01PM -0300

> > > I thought about suggesting using -I to reduce patch size, but then it is
> > > using "" :-\
> > 
> > Yeah, I have the -I$(CURDIR)/lib for this in the top level Makefile so all
> > library includes would be like:
> > 
> > #include <util.h>
> > 
> > however, this does not differentiate perflib (let's call it that for how
> > :) from libc headers. Do we want a "perf" or "kernel" or "perflib" or
> > whatever prefix here - it might make sense later when this thing grows
> > to differentiate between the namespaces...?
> 
> Agreed, but the last name this thing will have will be 'perf'something :-)
> 
> One of the goals at least I have with pursuing this path is to separate
> out everything that is not strictly 'perf' into things that can be reused
> by other tools, like yours.

I'm still splitting perf/util into a more or less generic lib.
Now, I want to reuse as much code as possible and am parsing
the "mce:mce_record" tracepoint using parse_events(). However,
this means that I have to push the not-so-generic perf bits
like util/parse-events.c into the lib. Which, in turn, pulls in
util/trace-event* etc.

What is your preference, do we want to export all perf/util stuff for
other tools to use or rather link other tools together with compilation
modules from perf/util in case those other tools need them?

I'm leaning towards the first one and am thinking "maximize code reuse"
but I'm not completely sure, there might be reasons against it...

Hmm...?

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Boris.

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