Re: [PATCH -tip 2/4] tracing: add a resize function for making one buffer equivalent to the other buffer

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:27 +0900, Hiraku Toyooka wrote:
> Trace buffer size is now per-cpu, so that there are following two
> patterns in resize of the buffers.
> 
>   (1) resize per-cpu buffers to same given size
>   (2) resize per-cpu buffers to the other trace_array's buffer size
>       for each CPU (such as preparing the max_tr which is equivalent
>       to the global_trace's size)
> 
> __tracing_resize_ring_buffer() can be used for (1), and had
> implemented (2) inside it for resetting the global_trace to the
> original size.
> 
> (2) was also implemented in other place. So this patch assembles
> them in a new function - resize_buffer_even().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> 
>  kernel/trace/trace.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 08acf42..1e599e6 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -3017,6 +3017,31 @@ static void set_buffer_entries(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long val)
>  		tr->data[cpu]->entries = val;
>  }
>  
> +/* resize @tr's buffer to the size of @size_tr's entries */
> +static int resize_buffer_even(struct trace_array *tr,

I don't mind this patch, but I just hate the name "resize_buffer_even".
What about "resize_buffer_duplicate_size"?

-- Steve