Re: [PATCH V2 17/30] perf: changing pmu::setup_aux() parameter to include event

2015-10-19 Thread Alexander Shishkin
Mathieu Poirier writes: > For some tracers the event carries information to be embedded > in the private structure returned by setup_aux(). You need to mention here what these tracers are and which bits of event's information they need in their setup_aux(). Right now I can look it up in this pat

[PATCH V2 17/30] perf: changing pmu::setup_aux() parameter to include event

2015-10-18 Thread Mathieu Poirier
For some tracers the event carries information to be embedded in the private structure returned by setup_aux(). As such changing the first parameter to be of type struct perf_event * so that all the necessary information can be conveyed. Also changing current customer of the API to reflect the mo