[PATCH v3 03/11] perf: provide a common perf_event_nop_0() for use with .event_idx

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Mar 5 12:19:26 EST 2014


On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 23:01 -0800, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 09:19 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-27-02 at 21:04:56 UTC, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> >> Rather an having every pmu that needs a function that just returns 0 for
> >> .event_idx define their own copy, reuse the one in kernel/events/core.c.
> >>
> >> Rename from perf_swevent_event_idx() because we're no longer using it
> >> for just software events. Naming is based on the perf_pmu_nop_*()
> >> functions.
> >
> > You could just use perf_pmu_nop_int() directly.
> 
> No, .event_idx needs something that takes a (struct perf_event *), 
> perf_pmu_nop_int() takes a (struct pmu *).

Yeah, duh.

cheers




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