From 91d7753a45f8525dc75b6be01e427dc1c378dc16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:38 +0200 Subject: perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy function Adding a generic way to use __output_copy function with specific copy function via DEFINE_PERF_OUTPUT_COPY macro. Using this to add new __output_copy_user function, that provides output copy from user pointers. For x86 the copy_from_user_nmi function is used and __copy_from_user_inatomic for the rest of the architectures. This new function will be used in user stack dump on sample, coming in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 6ddaba43fb7a..b4c2ad3dee7a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ out: return -ENOSPC; } -void perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, +unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, const void *buf, unsigned int len) { - __output_copy(handle, buf, len); + return __output_copy(handle, buf, len); } void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5685e0ff45f5df67e79e9b052b6ffd501ff38c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:39 +0200 Subject: perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the perf ring buffer. When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data. There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes. This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we might end up with less data than we originally requested. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index b4c2ad3dee7a..23cb34ff3973 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, return __output_copy(handle, buf, len); } +unsigned int perf_output_skip(struct perf_output_handle *handle, + unsigned int len) +{ + return __output_skip(handle, NULL, len); +} + void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle) { perf_output_put_handle(handle); -- cgit v1.2.3