linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/17] perf tools: Detect avalibility of write

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 12:39:02 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc:	arnaldo.melo@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>, pi3orama@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] perf tools: Detect avalibility of write_backward

Em Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:31:44PM +0800, Wangnan (F) escreveu:
> 
> 
> On 2016/5/13 21:08, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:56:06AM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu:
> > > Detect avalibility of write_backward and save the result into
> > > record_opts. With write_backward the start pointer of a ring
> > > buffer mapped read only can be found reliably.
> > We have perf_missing_features for that, please try to use it.
> 
> I'll try it, but write_backward can't fallback, if kernel doesn't
> support it, I think we'd better throw an error earlier. Using
> perf_missing_features we get error during opening the event, so if we want
> to fail earlier we still need API probing.

Conceptually 'perf_missing_features' shouldn't be strictly tied to
fallbacking, its just a way to mark what perf features are missing in
the current kernel, that info may be used for fallbacking, or for any
other purpose.

- Arnaldo