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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-26 17:41:15 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-27 15:17:00 -0300
commit046625231a0397f1776eb353a4ec9ff142cd2f6b (patch)
tree6ce7ab043539d2432b135bc61f39febb3a032039 /tools/perf/util/evsel.c
parentperf tools: No need to test against NULL before calling free() (diff)
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perf tools: Introduce zfree
For the frequent idiom of: free(ptr); ptr = NULL; Make it expect a pointer to the pointer being freed, so that it becomes clear at first sight that the variable being freed is being modified. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pfw02ezuab37kha18wlut7ir@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evsel.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 6874e0485693..93b6031d5459 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -750,8 +750,7 @@ void perf_evsel__free_id(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
{
xyarray__delete(evsel->sample_id);
evsel->sample_id = NULL;
- free(evsel->id);
- evsel->id = NULL;
+ zfree(&evsel->id);
}
void perf_evsel__close_fd(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads)
@@ -1960,8 +1959,7 @@ bool perf_evsel__fallback(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int err,
evsel->attr.type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE;
evsel->attr.config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK;
- free(evsel->name);
- evsel->name = NULL;
+ zfree(&evsel->name);
return true;
}