On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:13:05PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:32:03PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote: > > +struct power_pmu { > > + raw_spinlock_t lock; > > + struct list_head active_list; > > Maybe a dumb question, but what is that list for? > > You only ever add/del events to/from it, you never iterate it. So why > keep it? > > If you drop the list, the lock can go too I think, making all this stuff > simpler.
Yes, the active_list seems a bit superfluous if not be iterated. I will remove it. Any other comments? :-) Thanks, Rui