perf: Return empty callchain instead of NULL
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:03:50 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 8 Jan 2018 15:35:01 +0000 (12:35 -0300)
commit99e818cc88889a2fa2f483b91b372c47b94b7c98
treee015ff4014a41fca03a550187172bd1e4448150c
parent8cf7e0e22414f5acf85ecb7cd0d4482e6c9696ae
perf: Return empty callchain instead of NULL

It simplifies the code a bit, because we dump the callchain
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uqp7qd6aif47g39glnbu95yl@git.kernel.org
even if it's empty. With 'empty' callchain we can remove
all the NULL-checking code paths.

Original-patch-from: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-7-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kernel/events/core.c