Re: [GIT PULL] perf update

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 16:56 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> > > Frederic Weisbecker (1):
> > >       perf: Split up buffer handling from core code
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  kernel/events/Makefile   |    2 +-
> > >  kernel/events/buffer.c   |  400 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  kernel/events/core.c     |  458 ++--------------------------------------------
> > >  kernel/events/internal.h |   70 +++++++
> > >  4 files changed, 487 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Looks about right.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> 
> thanks, i'll pull it it and test it.

Note, i ended up applying it by hand:

 - fixed a build error,

 - streamlined the renaming: we really want this to be ring_buffer.c 
   (most of the complexity comes from this not being a simple buffer 
   but a ring-buffer)

 - i streamlined the naming around it: struct ring_buffer 
   internalized via internal.h (it does not clash with ftrace's 
   ring-buffer)

It all looks and reads much nicer now, but please double check the 
commit as well :-)

One other rename i'd like to do is:

   struct perf_output_handle		=> struct rb_handle

   perf_output_begin()			=> rb_open()
   perf_output_copy()			=> rb_write()
   perf_output_sample()			=> rb_write_sample()
   perf_output_end()			=> rb_close()

Which really makes it a lot more apparent that it's a regular 
input/output flow defined over the ring-buffer!

I can do this if this is fine with everyone. There will be no change 
in functionality.

Thanks,

	Ingo