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

From: Will Deacon
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 09:00:06 EST


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.

Will