[PATCH 03/10] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Jul 28 06:52:10 PDT 2021


Refactor the helper to pad a given AUX buffer area to allow
"filling" ignore packets, without moving any handle pointers.
This will be useful in working around errata, where we may
have to fill the buffer after a session.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index a0168ad204b3..0af644331b99 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -228,12 +228,18 @@ static void trbe_stop_and_truncate_event(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
  * consumed from the user space. The enabled TRBE buffer area is a moving subset of
  * the allocated perf auxiliary buffer.
  */
+
+static void __trbe_pad_buf(struct trbe_buf *buf, u64 offset, int len)
+{
+	memset((void *)buf->trbe_base + offset, ETE_IGNORE_PACKET, len);
+}
+
 static void trbe_pad_buf(struct perf_output_handle *handle, int len)
 {
 	struct trbe_buf *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
 	u64 head = PERF_IDX2OFF(handle->head, buf);
 
-	memset((void *)buf->trbe_base + head, ETE_IGNORE_PACKET, len);
+	__trbe_pad_buf(buf, head, len);
 	if (!buf->snapshot)
 		perf_aux_output_skip(handle, len);
 }
-- 
2.24.1




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