[PATCH 2/5] perf core: Set event's default overflow_handler

[Wang Nan]

Set a default event->overflow_handler in perf_event_alloc() so don't
need checking event->overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow().
Following commits can give a different default overflow_handler.

No extra performance introduced into hot path because in the original
code we still need reading this handler from memory. A conditional branch
is avoided so actually we remove some instructions.

Initial idea comes from Peter at [1].

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708121557.GA17211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pi3orama@xxxxxxx
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 9e9c84da..f79c4be 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6402,10 +6402,7 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
 		irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
 	}
 
-	if (event->overflow_handler)
-		event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs);
-	else
-		perf_event_output(event, data, regs);
+	event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs);
 
 	if (*perf_event_fasync(event) && event->pending_kill) {
 		event->pending_wakeup = 1;
@@ -7874,8 +7871,13 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
 		context = parent_event->overflow_handler_context;
 	}
 
-	event->overflow_handler	= overflow_handler;
-	event->overflow_handler_context = context;
+	if (overflow_handler) {
+		event->overflow_handler	= overflow_handler;
+		event->overflow_handler_context = context;
+	} else {
+		event->overflow_handler = perf_event_output;
+		event->overflow_handler_context = NULL;
+	}
 
 	perf_event__state_init(event);
 
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