linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 05/15] perf evlist: implement control command handling functions

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Message-ID: <20200722122734.GJ77866@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:27:34 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 05/15] perf evlist: implement control command
 handling functions

Em Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:01:33AM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
> 
> Implement functions of initialization, finalization and processing
> of control command messages coming from control file descriptors.
> Allocate control file descriptor as descriptor at struct pollfd
> object of evsel_list for atomic poll() operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

I'm applying locally for testing, but can you answer what is the reason
for that newline in the CMD_ACK_TAG? I tried looking at previous
discussion but couldn't quickly find any reasoning for that

- Arnaldo

> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
> @@ -359,4 +359,22 @@ void perf_evlist__force_leader(struct evlist *evlist);
>  struct evsel *perf_evlist__reset_weak_group(struct evlist *evlist,
>  						 struct evsel *evsel,
>  						bool close);
> +#define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ENABLE_TAG  "enable"
> +#define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_DISABLE_TAG "disable"
> +#define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ACK_TAG     "ack\n"

What for? That '\n'?