From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf: Introduce default_overflow_compatible flag
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:27:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <176179482721.959775.9568162681903659824.stgit@devnote2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <176179481538.959775.12326313742393696258.stgit@devnote2>
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Instead of checking whether event->overflow_handler everytime in
is_default_overflow_handler(), just use a flag to check it once when
registering the handler.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/perf_event.h | 9 ++-------
kernel/events/core.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index fd1d91017b99..40dd897e26b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -902,6 +902,7 @@ struct perf_event {
u64 (*clock)(void);
perf_overflow_handler_t overflow_handler;
void *overflow_handler_context;
+ bool default_overflow_compatible;
struct bpf_prog *prog;
u64 bpf_cookie;
@@ -1505,13 +1506,7 @@ extern int perf_event_output(struct perf_event *event,
static inline bool
is_default_overflow_handler(struct perf_event *event)
{
- perf_overflow_handler_t overflow_handler = event->overflow_handler;
-
- if (likely(overflow_handler == perf_event_output_forward))
- return true;
- if (unlikely(overflow_handler == perf_event_output_backward))
- return true;
- return false;
+ return event->default_overflow_compatible;
}
extern void
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 177e57c1a362..6bbbde82cb21 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -12946,9 +12946,11 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
} else if (is_write_backward(event)){
event->overflow_handler = perf_event_output_backward;
event->overflow_handler_context = NULL;
+ event->default_overflow_compatible = true;
} else {
event->overflow_handler = perf_event_output_forward;
event->overflow_handler_context = NULL;
+ event->default_overflow_compatible = true;
}
perf_event__state_init(event);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-30 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-30 3:26 [PATCH 0/2] tracing/wprobe: Fix to avoid inifinite watchpoint exception on arm64 Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2025-10-30 3:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [this message]
2025-10-30 3:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing: wprobe: Make wprobe_handler default overflow_handler compatible Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2025-11-04 13:37 ` [PATCH 0/2] tracing/wprobe: Fix to avoid inifinite watchpoint exception on arm64 Masami Hiramatsu
2025-11-14 16:17 ` Will Deacon
2025-11-17 2:46 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-11-10 4:58 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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