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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] perf: sysfs type id
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:01 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> Peter,
>
>> > 6
>>
>> And then, what do you do with 6?
>> I assume you have to pass it in the attr struct.
>
> perf_event_attr::type, as said in the initial changelog.
>
>> How do you plan on doing this while keeping what is already there?
>
> +       if (type < 0) {
> +               err = idr_get_new_above(&pmu_idr, pmu, PERF_TYPE_MAX, &type);
>
> and
>
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +       pmu = idr_find(&pmu_idr, event->attr.type);
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +       if (pmu)
> +               goto unlock;
>
>
> So we start dynamic IDs at the top of the static range, and only do
> dynamic IDs for those that don't already have a static number.
>
>
Ok, should work fine.
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