[PATCH V3 2/6] perf: Passing struct perf_event to function setup_aux()

Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Mon Aug 8 07:38:18 PDT 2016


On 8 August 2016 at 04:49, Alexander Shishkin
<alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:19PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>> Some information, like driver specific configuration, is found
>>> in the hw_perf_event  structure.  As such pass a 'struct perf_event'
>>> to function setup_aux() rather than just the CPU number so that
>>> individual drivers can make the right configuration when setting
>>> up a session.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Yeah, no objection to this.
>
> Sure, but I'd like a commit message that actually describes *what*
> information and *why*.

Sure, I'll make it more explicit in the next revision.

Mathieu

>
> Regards,
> --
> Alex



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