[PATCH v4 06/15] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Oct 12 06:17:34 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.

Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
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 5902ef41bfb8..3de03136285f 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -199,12 +199,18 @@ 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);
 }
-- 
2.25.4




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