[PATCH v9 3/6] Coresight: Introduce a new struct coresight_path

[Jie Gan]

On 2/1/2025 12:43 AM, James Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24/01/2025 7:25 am, Jie Gan wrote:
>> Add 'struct coresight_path' to store the data that is needed by
>> coresight_enable_path/coresight_disable_path. The structure
>> will be transmitted to the helper and sink device to enable
>> related funcationalities.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jie Gan <quic_jiegan at quicinc.com>
>> ---
> [...]
>>       /*
>>        * If we still have access to the event_data via handle,
>> @@ -595,11 +599,11 @@ static void etm_event_stop(struct perf_event 
>> *event, int mode)
>>       if (!csdev)
>>           return;
>> -    path = etm_event_cpu_path(event_data, cpu);
>> -    if (!path)
>> +    cs_path = etm_event_cpu_path(event_data, cpu);
>> +    if (!cs_path)
> 
> I don't think renaming 'path' to 'cs_path' is worth the churn. It's in a 
> lot of places in this change, but I think path is already good enough.
> 
Yes, agree with you. It seems unnecessary. Will update it.

>>           return;
>> -    sink = coresight_get_sink(path);
>> +    sink = coresight_get_sink(cs_path->path);
> 
> coresight_get_sink() is always called with cs_path->path, so we might as 
> well make it take a whole path struct. The same with any of the other 
> functions that operate on path like coresight_get_source().
It's make sense for me and make codes easy to read. I will update it.

> 

Thanks,
Jie