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Message-ID: <20250212190005.GD235556@e132581.arm.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:00:05 +0000
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
To: "Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 11/11] perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch
 Record Buffer Extension (BRBE)

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 06:52:27PM +0000, Leo Yan wrote:

[...]

> > +static int brbinf_get_mispredict(u64 brbinf)
> > +{
> > +       return FIELD_GET(BRBINFx_EL1_MPRED_MASK, brbinf);
> > +}
> 
> I would expect the naming of brbinf_get_mispredict() will cause
> confusion.  When the function returns 1, it means "Branch was
> incorrectly predicted".
> 
> Maybe consider to use '!FIELD_GET(...)' for a reversed value?

Please ignore this comment. Sorry for my misreading and noise.

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