On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 08:37:34AM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On 2/25/16 6:18 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:58:57PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > >>. avoid walking the stack when there is no room left in the buffer > >>. generalize get_perf_callchain() to be called from bpf helper > > > >If it does two things it should be two patches. > > could have been two patches, but it will only add more churn > to the same lines. what's the concern?
It makes review easier, shows which modification is for what purpose. Also the changelog really needs more; it should for example explain what BPF needs from the callchain code, and preferably why.