Re: [PATCH 07/10] perf: Directly pass PERF_AUX_* flags to perf_aux_output_end

From: Alexander Shishkin
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 09:11:24 EST


Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:40:23PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > @@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ int intel_bts_interrupt(void)
>> > return handled;
>> >
>> > perf_aux_output_end(&bts->handle, local_xchg(&buf->data_size, 0),
>> > - !!local_xchg(&buf->lost, 0));
>> > + local_xchg(&buf->lost, 0) ?
>> > + PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE : 0);
>>
>> Heh, this one would have taken some time to debug. :)
>
> Don't worry, this isn't a bug fix! This patch changes the prototype for
> perf_aux_output_end so that it takes the flag instead of a "bool truncated"
> parameter, so this is just fixing up the callers at the same time.

Yeah, I got that, what I'm saying is that the above should be
PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, not OVERWRITE. I only spotted it by accident.

Regards,
--
Alex