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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:21:48 -0700
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Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>, Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>,
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	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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On 10/21/15 10:31 PM, Wangnan (F) wrote:
>> +    if ((attr->type != PERF_TYPE_RAW &&
>> +         !(attr->type == PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE &&
>> +           attr->config == PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT) &&
>> +         attr->type != PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) ||
>> +        attr->inherit) {
>
> This 'if' statement is so complex. What about using a inline function
> instead?

hmm. don't see how inline function will help readability.