[PATCH v9 00/16] perf arm-spe: Refactor decoding & dumping flow

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:24:25PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> This is patch set v9 for refactoring Arm SPE trace decoding and dumping.
> 
> According to comments and suggestions from patch set v8, it squashs the
> two patches into single one: "perf arm-spe: Refactor printing string to
> buffer" and "perf arm-spe: Consolidate arm_spe_pkt_desc()'s return
> value".
> 
> In the patch 01/16, it renames the function arm_spe_pkt_snprintf() to
> arm_spe_pkt_out_string(), since the function is not the same semantics
> with snprintf(), the renaming can avoid confusion.
> 
> This patch set is cleanly applied on the top of perf/core branch
> with commit 29396cd573da ("perf expr: Force encapsulation on
> expr_id_data").
> 
> This patch set has been tested on Hisilicon D06 platform with commands
> "perf report -D" and "perf script", compared the decoding results
> between with this patch set and without this patch set, "diff" tool
> shows the result as expected.
> 
> I also manually built the patches for arm/arm64/x86_64 and verfied
> every single patch can build successfully.

I'm unable to test this, so I'm please that you can! Anyway, it all looks
fine from a quick look:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

so I think Arnaldo can pick this up when he's ready.

Cheers,

Will