Re: [PATCH 07/10] perf: Directly pass PERF_AUX_* flags to perf_aux_output_end
From: Alexander Shishkin
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 10:05:57 EST
Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:06:59PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> D'oh, quite right, I'll fix that now. Thanks for having a look.
Wait a bit with the fixing, I'm about to post an amended version.
Regards,
--
Alex