From: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:19:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d4168e0f7e62a31a00b3a16d155224842442dd8.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home>
Hi Steve,
On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 11:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
> event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.
>
> The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
> as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
> impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.
>
Yes, you're absolutely right, it should have been named "common_cpu"
from the start, not only for this reason but also just for the sake of
consistency.
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
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2021-07-21 15:00 [PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu" Steven Rostedt
2021-07-21 20:19 ` Tom Zanussi [this message]
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