linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf: Simplify the ring-buffer code

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Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:18:27 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf: Simplify the ring-buffer code

Commit-ID:  26c86da8821f7b64fced498674990318bc34c8de
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/26c86da8821f7b64fced498674990318bc34c8de
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:19:59 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:34:18 +0100

perf: Simplify the ring-buffer code

By using CIRC_SPACE() we can obviate the need for perf_output_space().

Shrinks the size of perf_output_begin() by 17 bytes on
x86_64-defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: james.hogan@...tec.com
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@...ter.net>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@...ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vtb0xb0llebmsdlfn1v5vtfj@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 37 ++++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 9c2ddfb..6929c58 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -12,40 +12,10 @@
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/circ_buf.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
-static bool perf_output_space(struct ring_buffer *rb, unsigned long tail,
-			      unsigned long offset, unsigned long head)
-{
-	unsigned long sz = perf_data_size(rb);
-	unsigned long mask = sz - 1;
-
-	/*
-	 * check if user-writable
-	 * overwrite : over-write its own tail
-	 * !overwrite: buffer possibly drops events.
-	 */
-	if (rb->overwrite)
-		return true;
-
-	/*
-	 * verify that payload is not bigger than buffer
-	 * otherwise masking logic may fail to detect
-	 * the "not enough space" condition
-	 */
-	if ((head - offset) > sz)
-		return false;
-
-	offset = (offset - tail) & mask;
-	head   = (head   - tail) & mask;
-
-	if ((int)(head - offset) < 0)
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static void perf_output_wakeup(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
 	atomic_set(&handle->rb->poll, POLL_IN);
@@ -181,9 +151,10 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 		tail = ACCESS_ONCE(rb->user_page->data_tail);
 		smp_mb();
 		offset = head = local_read(&rb->head);
-		head += size;
-		if (unlikely(!perf_output_space(rb, tail, offset, head)))
+		if (!rb->overwrite &&
+		    unlikely(CIRC_SPACE(head, tail, perf_data_size(rb)) < size))
 			goto fail;
+		head += size;
 	} while (local_cmpxchg(&rb->head, offset, head) != offset);
 
 	if (head - local_read(&rb->wakeup) > rb->watermark)
--
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