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perf evlist: Rename variable in perf_mmap__read()
authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 02:19:21 +0000 (02:19 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 May 2016 00:04:04 +0000 (21:04 -0300)
commitc99c96c97893166af77dac6e56927ca3069f8c5d
tree731d887c8bae23eb0408dcfd2193bc2077f621ee
parentf141074da98d613cb46927d7eafb0af2d7fd32f3
perf evlist: Rename variable in perf_mmap__read()

In perf_mmap__read(), give better names to pointers. Original name 'old'
and 'head' directly related to pointers in ring buffer control page. For
backward ring buffer, the meaning of 'head' point is not 'the first byte
of free space', but 'the first byte of the last record'. To reduce
confusion, rename 'old' to 'start', 'head' to 'end'.  'start' -> 'end'
is the direction the records should be read from.

Change parameter order.

Change 'overwrite' to 'check_messup'. When reading from 'head', no need
to check messup for for backward ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461723563-67451-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/evlist.c