This reverts commit de95ab5364.
Markus Trippelsdorf reported that this commit broke 'perf top':
> I just see a gray screen with no text at all. Sometimes the
> following error messages are printed:
>
> *** Error in `perf': invalid fastbin entry (free): 0x00000000029b18c0
> ***
> *** Error in `perf': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000000000ee0b10 ***
While this code is fixable, the commit itself fails on several levels:
- it should have been a separate helper function
- why the heck does it do strchr() twice
- it casts a const char * over into char *
- sloppy style
- it's not even a regression fix!
So lets revert it and re-try the patch in v3.13.
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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