linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Add persistent event facilities

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Date:	Tue, 3 May 2011 08:40:46 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	EDAC devel <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Add persistent event facilities


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
> 
> Add a barebones implementation for registering persistent events with
> perf. For that, we don't destroy the buffers when they're unmapped;
> also, we map them read-only so that multiple agents can access them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
> ---
>  include/linux/perf_event.h |   22 +++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/events/Makefile     |    2 +-
>  kernel/events/core.c       |   29 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  kernel/events/persistent.c |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 kernel/events/persistent.c

I really like this new kernel/events/ subdirectory you created - we could move 
the other perf_events.c facilities there as well, and maybe split up the file a 
bit, it's 7.5 KLOC now which is a bit excessive.

We should probably do that before adding kernel/events/persistent.c - wanna do 
those changes? Initial commit should be a mostly-rename thing: 
kernel/perf_events.c could move into kernel/events/core.c or so - and then we 
could split the core up some more, into various facilities.

[ kernel/hw_breakpoint.c could possibly move into kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c 
  file as well - if Frederic acks it. ]

Thanks,

	Ingo
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