linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 20/22] tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var

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Date:   Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:50:18 +0900
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     zanussi@...nel.org
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, vedang.patel@...el.com,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        julia@...com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 20/22] tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to
 destroy var_refs

Hi Tom and Masami,

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:29 AM Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Masami,
>
> On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 01:31 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:01:34 -0600
> > Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > Since every var ref for a trigger has an entry in the var_ref[]
> > > array,
> > > use that to destroy the var_refs, instead of piecemeal via the
> > > field
> > > expressions.
> > >
> > > This allows us to avoid having to keep and treat differently
> > > separate
> > > lists for the action-related references, which future patches will
> > > remove.
> >
> > I'm not so sure, but this seems a bugfix... if so, please move this
> > at
> > the top of this series.
> >
>
> No, none of these are bugfixes - patches 17-22 are just some additional
> cleanup that try to make the code easier to follow after Namhyung's
> comments that things were confusing here.
>
> Actually, what I should probably do is make these a separate series..

Agreed, I also think it's getting bigger and having these cleanups
before the actual change would make things little bit easier IMHO.

Thanks,
Namhyung