Re: [PATCH v8 20/22] tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Sat Dec 15 2018 - 16:01:43 EST


Hi Namhyung,

On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 15:50 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Tom and Masami,
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:29 AM Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Masami,
> >
> > On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 01:31 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:01:34 -0600
> > > Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Since every var ref for a trigger has an entry in the var_ref[]
> > > > array,
> > > > use that to destroy the var_refs, instead of piecemeal via the
> > > > field
> > > > expressions.
> > > >
> > > > This allows us to avoid having to keep and treat differently
> > > > separate
> > > > lists for the action-related references, which future patches
> > > > will
> > > > remove.
> > >
> > > I'm not so sure, but this seems a bugfix... if so, please move
> > > this
> > > at
> > > the top of this series.
> > >
> >
> > No, none of these are bugfixes - patches 17-22 are just some
> > additional
> > cleanup that try to make the code easier to follow after Namhyung's
> > comments that things were confusing here.
> >
> > Actually, what I should probably do is make these a separate
> > series..
>
> Agreed, I also think it's getting bigger and having these cleanups
> before the actual change would make things little bit easier IMHO.
>

Yep, that's what I'll do then.

Thanks,

Tom