Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf core: Add backward attribute to perf event

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 06:41:32AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:

Could you maybe write a perf/tests thingy for this so that _some_
userspace exists that exercises this new code?


>  int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
>  		      struct perf_event *event, unsigned int size)
>  {
> +	if (unlikely(is_write_backward(event)))
> +		return __perf_output_begin(handle, event, size, true);
>  	return __perf_output_begin(handle, event, size, false);
>  }

Would something like:

int perf_output_begin(...)
{
	if (unlikely(is_write_backward(event))
		return perf_output_begin_backward(...);
	return perf_output_begin_forward(...);
}

make sense; I'm not sure how much is still using this, but it seems
somewhat excessive to inline two copies of that thing into a single
function.

Alternatively; something like:

int perf_output_begin(...)
{
	return __perf_output_begin(..., unlikely(event->attr.backwards));
}

might make sense too.