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Message-ID: <20111129115205.GA2244@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:52:05 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] perf symbols: Add nr_events to symbol_conf
Em Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:44:38PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 11/28/2011 04:14 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> > Since symbol__alloc_hists need it, to avoid passing it around in many
> > functions have it in the symbol_conf struct.
>
> I get why you want to do this, but symbol_conf seems to be an odd
> choice. This is number of events, not how to resolve or display symbols.
Well, its related to something you do per-symbol, namely annotate how
many hits per ip per event it got in its addr range.
I plan at some point look again at the symbol system to check things
like this, the filter, the need to have a map to load things, but for
now I think we can leave it there.
- Arnaldo
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