Re: [PATCH V2 3/7] arm64/perf: Update struct pmu_hw_events for BRBE

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 09:09:10AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:

> Something like the following change moves the buffer allocation off the stack,
> although it requires updating the driver, and buffer assignment during a PMU
> interrupt. But it does seem to work (will require some more testing).

Yeah, looks like it should do the trick.

> +
> +               events->branch_records = kmalloc(sizeof(struct brbe_records), flags);
> +               WARN_ON(!events->branch_records);

No need for the WARN_ON(), if we run out of memory the memory
management code is already very loud about it.

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