From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mikey@neuling.org, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 03/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize BHRB processing
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:35:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557A84B6.2010104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433993542.31423.37.camel@axtens.net>
On 06/11/2015 09:02 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>>>> +
>>>> /* Processing BHRB entries */
>>>> static void power_pmu_bhrb_read(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw)
>>>> {
>>>> - u64 val;
>>>> - u64 addr;
>>>> + u64 val, addr, tmp;
>>> Please don't use 'tmp' here. As far as I can tell, you use this variable
>>> to compute the 'to' address. The name should reflect that.
>>
>> Agreed but then it will be a new preparatory patch at the beginning
>> of this patch series.
>>
> I don't think I understand what you're saying here. Why do you need a
> new patch? As I understand it, you've introduced 'tmp' in this patch;
> couldn't you just rename it to, for example, to_addr, instead of tmp in
> this patch?
Sorry for the confusion, I meant separate patch for the other
two changes I had agreed to (i.e changing the name and type of
'pred' variable) as suggested in the previous mail not for this
one. Will change 'tmp' into 'to_addr' in this patch itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-12 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-08 11:38 [PATCH V8 01/10] powerpc, perf: Drop the branch sample when 'from' cannot be fetched Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 02/10] powerpc, perf: Restore privillege level filter support for BHRB Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 3:43 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:08 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 3:28 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12 7:06 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 03/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize BHRB processing Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 4:36 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:09 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 3:32 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12 7:05 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 04/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize PMU based branch filter processing in POWER8 Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 5:07 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:09 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 05/10] powerpc, perf: Change the name of HW PMU branch filter tracking variable Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 06/10] powerpc, lib: Add new branch analysis support functions Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 5:33 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:10 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 07/10] powerpc, perf: Enable SW filtering in branch stack sampling framework Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 08/10] powerpc, perf: Change POWER8 PMU configuration to work with SW filters Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 5:49 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:10 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 3:38 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 09/10] powerpc, perf: Enable privilege mode SW branch filters Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 1:19 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12 7:04 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 10/10] selftests, powerpc: Add test for BHRB branch filters (HW & SW) Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-09 5:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 2:09 ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12 7:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-12 7:26 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2015-06-12 8:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10 3:21 ` [PATCH V8 01/10] powerpc, perf: Drop the branch sample when 'from' cannot be fetched Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:02 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11 2:22 ` Daniel Axtens
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