Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf/aux: Make perf_event accessible to setup_aux()

[Hendrik Brueckner]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:33:28PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> It can be advantagous to have access to all the information conveyed by
> a perf_event when setting up the AUX buffer, as it is the case when
> dealing with PMU specific driver configuration communicated to the kernel
> using an ioctl() call.
> 
> As such simply replace the cpu information by the complete perf_event
> structure and change all affected customers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c                  | 4 ++--
>  arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c                      | 4 +++-
>  arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c                       | 5 +++--
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 6 +++---
>  drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c                       | 6 +++---
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                       | 2 +-
>  kernel/events/ring_buffer.c                      | 2 +-
>  7 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c b/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
> index 0292d68e7dde..e06daaa08894 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c
> @@ -1601,8 +1601,8 @@ static void aux_buffer_free(void *data)
>   *
>   * Return the private AUX buffer structure if success or NULL if fails.
>   */
> -static void *aux_buffer_setup(int cpu, void **pages, int nr_pages,
> -			      bool snapshot)
> +static void *aux_buffer_setup(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
> +			      int nr_pages, bool snapshot);

Please remove the trailing semi-colon (;) in the function definition causing
the kbuild error.  Also, it would be great if you also could update the
function comment and replace the @cpu by the @event.

Many thanks.