linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: fix up some comments and code to properly use the event

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Message-Id: <174007597292.1790567.8180370887868623106.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:26:12 -0800
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, 
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, 
 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, 
 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
 "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: fix up some comments and code to properly use
 the event_source bus

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:40:56 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In sysfs, the perf events are all located in
> /sys/bus/event_source/devices/ but some places ended up hard-coding the
> location to be at the root of /sys/devices/ which could be very risky as
> you do not exactly know what type of device you are accessing in sysfs
> at that location.
> 
> So fix this all up by properly pointing everything at the bus device
> list instead of the root of the sysfs devices/ tree.
> 
> [...]
Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung