linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] trace points: power: remove 'cpu_id' from trace_cpu

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Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:38:07 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...oldbits.com>
Cc:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] trace points: power: remove 'cpu_id' from trace_cpu_idle

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...oldbits.com> wrote:
>> It was known that cpu_id is always the current cpu with current
>> implementation when this got introduced.
>> But the perf events API must not change back and forth for userspace
>> compatibility. Therefore the cpu_id was added in case
>> that future implementations want to pass info where the current cpu
>> is not the cpu which is sent to the sleep state.
> Agree. Let's keep the cpu_id field.

OK, let's keep it.

How about removing it in clock_enalbe/clock_disable/power_domain_target
as did in [1/3] and [2/3]?  I don't see any usefulness of 'cpu_id' in the tree
trace points.


thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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