perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for it
Using a struct thread instance just to hold the kernel space maps (vmlinux + modules) is overkill and confuses people trying to understand the perf symbols abstractions. The kernel maps are really present in all threads, i.e. the kernel is a library, not a separate thread. So introduce the 'map_groups' abstraction and use it for the kernel maps, now in the kmaps global variable. It, in turn, will move, together with the threads list to the perf_file abstraction, so that we can support multiple perf_file instances, needed by perf diff. Brainstormed-with: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1260550239-5372-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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