linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC V2 07/10] perf tools: change machine comm

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Message-ID: <20170918113044.GA7518@krava>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:30:44 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...el.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        "peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jolsa@...nel.org" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        "namhyung@...nel.org" <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        "Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        "Odzioba, Lukasz" <lukasz.odzioba@...el.com>,
        "ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 07/10] perf tools: change machine comm_exec type
 to atomic

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:05:11PM +0000, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > Em Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:23:20PM -0700, kan.liang@...el.com escreveu:
> > > From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
> > >
> > > In case there are two or more threads want to change it.
> > 
> > Please describe the scenario that made you want to have this in place, to
> > help in reviewing and to have it documented in this patch commit log.
> > 
> 
> Thinking more about it. For synthesizing event, we don't need to change the
> comm_exec. PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC is not set in this stage.
> But we should consider it if  we want to multithread the event processing stage.
> 
> Since it's not an issue for now, I will drop this patch and add some comments
> in the code for V3.

any chance you could push v3 into a git branch somewhere?

thanks,
jirka