Re: Reorganize perf kernel side

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:17:56PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> so I've had my eyes on this for a long time now and it has managed to
> get on my nerves just enough to do something about it :-)
> 
> So how about moving perf stuff to arch/x86/perf/ and get rid of the
> prefixes in the filenames. This also flattens our folder structure which
> is a good thing and which we've been talking about in the past.
> 
> In order to diminish churn, I can do the whole thing in 4-5 patches'
> sets, after having run enough *config smoke tests and 0day bot too.
> Anyway, something like that.
> 
> perf_event_<vendor>_<type>.c
> 
> can then move to arch/x86/perf/<vendor>/type.c
> 
> and have much saner structure.
> 
> Thoughts?

I _will_ blame you for at least a month after every time I mistype a
pathname because of this ;-)

git blame --follow must keep working. That is, git had better be able to
understand this code movement, loosing history is just a total PITA.

Also, a script that can auto-convert patches would be nice.