linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] perf cs-etm: Remove callback cs_etm_find

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Message-ID: <05442998-05f6-c41c-5a78-3f6723558825@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:29:35 +0100
From:   James Clark <james.clark@....com>
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Kiss <daniel.kiss@....com>,
        Denis Nikitin <denik@...gle.com>, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] perf cs-etm: Remove callback
 cs_etm_find_snapshot()



On 28/05/2021 17:15, Leo Yan wrote:
> The callback cs_etm_find_snapshot() is invoked for snapshot mode, its
> main purpose is to find the correct AUX trace data and returns "head"
> and "old" (we can call "old" as "old head") to the caller, the caller
> __auxtrace_mmap__read() uses these two pointers to decide the AUX trace
> data size.
> 
> cs_etm_find_snapshot() should be removed with below reasons:

Hi Leo,

I came across this other comment in coresight-tmc-etr.c that should probably
be fixed up if we remove cs_etm_find_snapshot(). The same is duplicated in a
few other files:

	/*
	 * In snapshot mode we simply increment the head by the number of byte
	 * that were written.  User space function  cs_etm_find_snapshot() will
	 * figure out how many bytes to get from the AUX buffer based on the
	 * position of the head.
	 */
	if (etr_perf->snapshot)
		handle->head += size;

I'm still reviewing patch 1 and 2 as well.

James