Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add "nested" field to event of lock_release | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:59:46 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 19:41 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote: > State machine of perf lock requires "nested" field of lock_release(), > so this patch adds it to event. > > Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The nested flag only indicates if it could be nested, not if it was actually nested. So no, this doesn't make any sense at all.
(in fact, pretty much every lock_release out there has nested=1)
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