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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:47:27 +0100 From: James Clark <james.clark@....com> To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, German Gomez <german.gomez@....com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf arm-spe: Implement find_snapshot callback On 12/10/2021 09:19, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 04:55:37PM +0100, German Gomez wrote: >> Hi Leo, >> >> On 06/10/2021 10:51, Leo Yan wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:35:20AM +0100, German Gomez wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>>> So simply say, I think the head pointer monotonically increasing is >>>>> the right thing to do in Arm SPE driver. >>>> I will talk to James about how we can proceed on this. >>> Thanks! >> >> I took this offline with James and, though it looks possible to patch >> the SPE driver to have a monotonically increasing head pointer in order >> to simplify the handling in the perf tool, it could be a breaking change >> for users of the perf_event_open syscall that currently rely on the way >> it works now. >> >> An alternative way we considered to simplify the patch is to change the >> logic inside the find_snapshot callback so that it records the entire >> contents of the aux buffer every time. >> >> What do you think? > > What does intel-pt do? Intel-pt has a wrapped head, which is why it has the intel_pt_find_snapshot() function in perf to try to not save any zeros from the buffer that haven't been written yet. (With a wrapped head pointer it's impossible to tell). Coresight has a monotonically increasing head pointer so it is possible to tell. Recently, Leo removed the Coresight version of find_snapshot() for this reason. It would be nice to do the same for SPE because that function has a heuristic and is also slow, but I imagine that not returning wrapped head pointers could break anything that expects them. James > > Will >
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