linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock

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Date:	Fri, 25 May 2012 18:30:45 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to
 cpu-clock

Em Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:26:34PM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> The patch I sent had:
> 
> + if (counter->name) {
> + free(counter->name);
> + counter->name = NULL;
> + counter->name = strdup(event_name(counter));
> + }
> 
> See http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.1/00390.html

I probably messed up this one, should've put a committer note for that
stupid simplification, anyway, just setting it to NULL is enough and
less confusing.

- Arnaldo
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