Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:27:44 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v2 3/4] perf: Add persistent event facilities
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:12:35PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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.

Right, I guess the easiest would be to rename it for now.

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