linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf, pt, coresight: Clean up address filter structure

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Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:10:36 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf, pt, coresight: Clean up address filter structure

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:06:48PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> This is a cosmetic patch that deals with the address filter structure's
> ambiguous fields 'filter' and 'range'. The former stands to mean that the
> filter's *action* should be to filter the traces to its address range if
> it's set or stop tracing if it's unset. This is confusing and hard on the
> eyes, so this patch replaces it with 'action' enum. The 'range' field is
> completely redundant (meaning that the filter is an address range as
> opposed to a single address trigger), as we can use zero size to mean the
> same thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Ingo, can you merge this?