[PATCH v3 0/5] Cavium ThunderX uncore PMU support
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Oct 20 04:01:09 PDT 2016
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:55:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:44:18AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > I think there's general confusion over the use of invalid context.
> > Perhaps we could clear that up with:
> >
> > #define perf_uncore_context perf_invalid_context
> >
> > and
> >
> > s/perf_hw_context/perf_cpu_hw_context/
>
> What might be missing is the fact that these are _TASK_ contexts.
Yes, that too.
> New names might clarify things a little though.
I'll add that to the list of cleanup/rework I've been meaning to look
at.
Thanks,
Mark.
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