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    perf tools: Reference count struct dso · d3a7c489
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    This has a different model than the 'thread' and 'map' struct lifetimes:
    there is not a definitive "don't use this DSO anymore" event, i.e. we may
    get many 'struct map' holding references to the '/usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so'
    DSO but then at some point some DSO may have no references but we still
    don't want to straight away release its resources, because "soon" we may
    get a new 'struct map' that needs it and we want to reuse its symtab or
    other resources.
    
    So we need some way to garbage collect it when crossing some memory
    usage threshold, which is left for anoter patch, for now it is
    sufficient to release it when calling dsos__exit(), i.e. when deleting
    the whole list as part of deleting the 'struct machine' containing it,
    which will leave only referenced objects being used.
    
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-majzgz07cm90t2tejrjy4clf@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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