[PATCH 07/10] perf: Directly pass PERF_AUX_* flags to perf_aux_output_end

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Feb 17 06:00:01 PST 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:40:23PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> writes:
> 
> > @@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ int intel_bts_interrupt(void)
> >  		return handled;
> >  
> >  	perf_aux_output_end(&bts->handle, local_xchg(&buf->data_size, 0),
> > -			    !!local_xchg(&buf->lost, 0));
> > +			    local_xchg(&buf->lost, 0) ?
> > +			    PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE : 0);
> 
> Heh, this one would have taken some time to debug. :)

Don't worry, this isn't a bug fix! This patch changes the prototype for
perf_aux_output_end so that it takes the flag instead of a "bool truncated"
parameter, so this is just fixing up the callers at the same time.

Will



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