Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:36:42 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tracing: Rename lockdep event subsystem into lock |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:10:09AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:06 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Lockdep events subsystem gathers various locking related events such > > as a request, release, contention or acquisition of a lock. > > > > The name of this event subsystem is a bit of a misnomer since these > > events are not quite related to lockdep but more generally to locking, > > ie: these events are not reporting lock dependencies or possible > > deadlock scenario but pure locking events. > > But in order to get them you need pretty much all of lockdep, except > PROVE_LOCKING. You get all the lock debugging, the lock tracking, the > struct dep_map bloat etc.
Sure. But I think an event susbsystem name should reflect its actual purpose despite the machinery that makes it work.
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