Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
  perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
  perf stat: More advanced variance computation
  perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
  perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
  perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
  perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
  perf trace: Fix read_string()
  perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
  perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
  perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
  perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
  perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
  perf trace: Sample the CPU too
  perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
  perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
  perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
  ...

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/path.c b/tools/perf/util/path.c
index a501a40dd2cb..fd1f2faaade4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/path.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/path.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ static char bad_path[] = "/bad-path/";
  * Two hacks:
  */
 
-static char *get_perf_dir(void)
+static const char *get_perf_dir(void)
 {
         return ".";
 }
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
 static char *get_pathname(void)
 {
         static char pathname_array[4][PATH_MAX];
-        static int index;
-        return pathname_array[3 & ++index];
+        static int idx;
+
+        return pathname_array[3 & ++idx];
 }
 
 static char *cleanup_path(char *path)
@@ -161,20 +162,24 @@ int perf_mkstemp(char *path, size_t len, const char *template)
 }
 
 
-const char *make_relative_path(const char *abs, const char *base)
+const char *make_relative_path(const char *abs_path, const char *base)
 {
         static char buf[PATH_MAX + 1];
         int baselen;
+
         if (!base)
-                return abs;
+                return abs_path;
+
         baselen = strlen(base);
-        if (prefixcmp(abs, base))
-                return abs;
-        if (abs[baselen] == '/')
+        if (prefixcmp(abs_path, base))
+                return abs_path;
+        if (abs_path[baselen] == '/')
                 baselen++;
         else if (base[baselen - 1] != '/')
-                return abs;
-        strcpy(buf, abs + baselen);
+                return abs_path;
+
+        strcpy(buf, abs_path + baselen);
+
         return buf;
 }