Re: [RFC PATCH -v2 3/4] perf: Add persistent event facilities

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 19:45 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>  
> -static void ring_buffer_put(struct ring_buffer *rb)
> +void ring_buffer_put(struct ring_buffer *rb)
>  {
>  	struct perf_event *event, *n;
>  	unsigned long flags;

I have to say that it is really unfortunate that we have two ring
buffers in the kernel, called struct ring_buffer. One being global and
one being local to events. And now we are exporting the name
"ring_buffer_*" too! This is going to confuse the hell out of people.

Perhaps this should have been called perf_buffer, as that is what it's
used for.

-- Steve


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