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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf: provide PMU when initing events
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On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:31 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently, an event's 'pmu' field is set after pmu::event_init() is
> called. This means that pmu::event_init() must figure out which struct
> pmu the event was initialised from. This makes it difficult to
> consolidate common event initialisation code for similar PMUs, and
> very difficult to implement drivers for PMUs which can have multiple
> instances (e.g. a USB controller PMU, a GPU PMU, etc).
>
> This patch sets the 'pmu' field before initialising the event, allowing
> event init code to identify the struct pmu instance easily. In the
> event of failure to initialise an event, the event is destroyed via
> kfree() without calling perf_event::destroy(), so this shouldn't
> result in bad behaviour even if the destroy field was set before
> failure to initialise was noted.

I thought there was a reason for things being the way they are, but
since I can't seem to recollect and your argument does make sense to me
I've merged it.

Thanks!


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