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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 16:14:47 +0100
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] arm: perf: Drop unused functions

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 05:47:36PM +0000, Colton Lewis wrote:
> For arm's implementation, perf_instruction_pointer() and
> perf_misc_flags() are equivalent to the generic versions in
> include/linux/perf_event.h so arch/arm doesn't need to provide its
> own versions. Drop them here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h |  7 -------
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c  | 17 -----------------
>  2 files changed, 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
> index bdbc1e590891..c08f16f2e243 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
> @@ -8,13 +8,6 @@
>  #ifndef __ARM_PERF_EVENT_H__
>  #define __ARM_PERF_EVENT_H__
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
> -struct pt_regs;
> -extern unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs);
> -extern unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs);
> -#define perf_misc_flags(regs)	perf_misc_flags(regs)
> -#endif
> -
>  #define perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(regs, __ip) { \
>  	(regs)->ARM_pc = (__ip); \
>  	frame_pointer((regs)) = (unsigned long) __builtin_frame_address(0); \
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
> index 1d230ac9d0eb..a2601b1ef318 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c
> @@ -96,20 +96,3 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *re
>  	arm_get_current_stackframe(regs, &fr);
>  	walk_stackframe(&fr, callchain_trace, entry);
>  }
> -
> -unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> -{
> -	return instruction_pointer(regs);
> -}
> -
> -unsigned long perf_misc_flags(struct pt_regs *regs)
> -{
> -	int misc = 0;
> -
> -	if (user_mode(regs))
> -		misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER;
> -	else
> -		misc |= PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL;
> -
> -	return misc;
> -}
> -- 
> 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
>