linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] perf: Carve out cgroup-related code

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Message-ID: <20110511140031.GA18219@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2011 16:00:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf: Carve out cgroup-related code


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:11 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >  include/linux/perf_event.h |  138 ++++++++++++-
> 
> I don't like exposing all that in a kernel wide header.. should we maybe
> have kernel/events/internal.h?

Yeah.

We could eventually avoid exposing much of struct perf_event as well: arch PMU 
drivers need the struct perf_event_attr, struct hw_perf_event and not much 
else.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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