Re: [PATCH V3 07/12] perf mmap: discard legacy interface for mmap read

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 09:26:13 EST


On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:08:49AM -0800, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Discards perf_mmap__read_backward and perf_mmap__read_catchup. No tools
> use them.
>
> There are tools still use perf_mmap__read_forward. Keep it, but add
> comments to point to the new interface for future use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/mmap.c | 50 ++++----------------------------------------------
> tools/perf/util/mmap.h | 3 ---
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> index d0ca3ba..650e0a7 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ static union perf_event *perf_mmap__read(struct perf_mmap *map,
> return event;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * legacy interface for mmap read.
> + * Don't use it. Use perf_mmap__read_event().
> + */

could we get rid of it then? looks like it's not much work,
seems it's used only in:

perf_evlist__mmap_read
perf_evlist__mmap_read_forward

it'd prove the new interface work correctly for both cases

thanks,
jirka

> union perf_event *perf_mmap__read_forward(struct perf_mmap *map)
> {
> u64 head;
> @@ -78,41 +82,6 @@ union perf_event *perf_mmap__read_forward(struct perf_mmap *map)
> return perf_mmap__read(map, &map->prev, head);
> }

SNIP