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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 6874e04..93b6031 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -750,8 +750,7 @@
{
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 @@
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;
}
