From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751993Ab3FYQOe (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:14:34 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]:46604 "EHLO mail-bk0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751358Ab3FYQOd (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:14:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:14:28 +0200 From: Robert Richter To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] perf: Add persistent event facilities Message-ID: <20130625161428.GG21579@rric.localhost> References: <1370968960-22527-1-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org> <1370968960-22527-4-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org> <20130624094830.GP28407@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130624192616.GB24827@pd.tnic> <20130625074401.GY28407@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130625092439.GD21579@rric.localhost> <20130625093706.GA18612@pd.tnic> <20130625105135.GF21579@rric.localhost> <20130625152941.GD4855@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130625152941.GD4855@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 25.06.13 17:29:41, Borislav Petkov wrote: > How about > > perf_add_pevent? > > It is nice and short, although maybe too short but "pevent" is almost > like a special term and the name shows that it is a special type of > event, i.e. a p-event. Fine with me, though it's more for internal usage. There is also use of it as name for event pointers. And, it is used in perf tools as event parser structure. But otherwise its ok. -Robert