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Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:13:11 +0800 From: Leo Yan To: James Clark Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Adrian Hunter , Ingo Molnar , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Will Deacon , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Mathieu Poirier , Suzuki K Poulose , Mike Leach , John Garry , Andi Kleen , Riccardo Mancini , Jin Yao , Li Huafei , coresight@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] perf auxtrace: Add compat_auxtrace_mmap__{read_head|write_tail} Message-ID: <20210824021311.GB169379@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s> References: <20210809112727.596876-1-leo.yan@linaro.org> <20210809112727.596876-3-leo.yan@linaro.org> <2b4e0c07-a8df-cca6-6a94-328560f4b0c6@arm.com> <20210823095155.GC100516@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s> <319ee11a-06f7-abde-6495-d2175928b9fe@arm.com> <20210823121348.GE100516@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s> <1c0101fd-2ca6-4741-5d72-82d3e00bfeb6@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1c0101fd-2ca6-4741-5d72-82d3e00bfeb6@arm.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 05:00:14PM +0100, James Clark wrote: [...] > >> I couldn't see how it can ever return -1, it seems like it would loop forever > >> until it reads the correct value. > > > > I use this chunk comment to address the function > > compat_auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(): > > > > +int __weak compat_auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(struct auxtrace_mmap *mm, u64 tail) > > +{ > > + struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->userpg; > > + u64 mask = (u64)(UINT32_MAX) << 32; > > + > > + if (tail & mask) > > + return -1; > > + > > + /* Ensure all reads are done before we write the tail out */ > > + smp_mb(); > > + WRITE_ONCE(pc->aux_tail, tail); > > + return 0; > > +} > > > > Please let me know if this is okay or not? Otherwise, if you think > > the format can cause confusion, I'd like to split the comments into > > two sections, one section for reading AUX head and another is for > > writing AUX tail. > > I see what you mean now, I think keeping it in one section is fine, I would just > replace "When update the AUX tail and detects" with "When > compat_auxtrace_mmap__write_tail() detects". If the function name is there then > it's clear that it's not the return value of compat_auxtrace_mmap__read_head() Sure, will update and send out the new patch. Thanks for suggestion. Leo