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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf: Add the flag sample_disable not to output
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On 2015/10/12 20:02, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:02:42AM +0000, Kaixu Xia wrote:
>> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
>> @@ -483,6 +483,8 @@ struct perf_event {
>>   	perf_overflow_handler_t		overflow_handler;
>>   	void				*overflow_handler_context;
>>   
>> +	atomic_t			*sample_disable;
>> +
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
>>   	struct trace_event_call		*tp_event;
>>   	struct event_filter		*filter;
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
>> index b11756f..f6ef45c 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
>> @@ -6337,6 +6337,9 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
>>   		irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
>>   	}
>>   
>> +	if ((event->sample_disable) && atomic_read(event->sample_disable))
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>>   	if (event->overflow_handler)
>>   		event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs);
>>   	else
> Try and guarantee sample_disable lives in the same cacheline as
> overflow_handler.

Could you please explain why we need them to be in a same cacheline?

Thank you.

> I think we should at the very least replace the kzalloc() currently used
> with a cacheline aligned alloc, and check the structure layout to verify
> these two do in fact share a cacheline.