Re: [RFC PATCH 4/9] mce: Add persistent events

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 08:14 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> More generally i agree with you that better modularization helps - a 
> nice improvement in this area would be to do a kernel/perf_event/ 
> splitup: i.e. split kernel/perf_event.c (which is getting a tad big) 
> into:
> 
>   kernel/events/output.c
>   kernel/events/trace.c
>   kernel/events/core.c
>   kernel/events/syscall.c
>   kernel/events/persistent.c
> 
> Maybe even move hw_breakpoint.c there, etc. There's already various 
> wrappers in perf_event.c that could be split out of the core code to 
> increase modularity. Later on we could have a sysfs.c, etc.
> 
> Any taker for such a massive restructuring? :)

I'm willing to help out. Just need to get past all the confs I seemed to
be going to lately. I feel I'm traveling once a month. Of course my
recent vacations did not help any ;-)

-- Steve


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