Re: [PATCH 06/11] perf: Move cgroup init before PMU ->event_init()

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Wed Oct 08 2014 - 06:32:59 EST


On Tue, 07 Oct, at 09:34:24PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:04:10PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> > @@ -6859,7 +6859,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
> > struct perf_event *group_leader,
> > struct perf_event *parent_event,
> > perf_overflow_handler_t overflow_handler,
> > - void *context)
> > + void *context, bool cgroup, pid_t pid)
> > {
> > struct pmu *pmu;
> > struct perf_event *event;
>
> I don't get this extension, why a bool and pid_t ?

So that it's possible to figure out whether we need to call
perf_cgroup_connect().

Oh, why not just 'int fd', you mean? Ermm... yeah that would be better.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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