Re: [PATCH 1/7] perf mmap: Store mmap scope and type in struct perf_mmap

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 02:10:53PM -0500, kan.liang@linux.intel.com escreveu:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
> 
> There are too many boilerplates for the perf_mmap__read*() interfaces.
> 
> Some of the data (e.g. 'start', 'end', 'overwrite') should be stored in
> struct perf_mmap at initialization. They will be used later.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.c | 11 ++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/mmap.h |  3 +++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> index 4f27c46..642b479 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.c
> @@ -250,11 +250,14 @@ int perf_mmap__read_init(struct perf_mmap *md, bool overwrite,
>  
>  	*startp = overwrite ? head : old;
>  	*endp = overwrite ? old : head;

Why did you keep the above and haven't removed the startp/endp args? to
ease the conversion somehow? I'll look at the other patches, but I think
we should change the function signature here and in the callers all at
once.

Sometimes this is ok, and probably this is one case.

- Arnaldo

> +	md->overwrite = overwrite;
> +	md->start = overwrite ? head : old;
> +	md->end = overwrite ? old : head;
>  
> -	if (*startp == *endp)
> +	if (md->start == md->end)
>  		return -EAGAIN;
>  
> -	size = *endp - *startp;
> +	size = md->end - md->start;
>  	if (size > (unsigned long)(md->mask) + 1) {
>  		if (!overwrite) {
>  			WARN_ONCE(1, "failed to keep up with mmap data. (warn only once)\n");
> @@ -268,8 +271,10 @@ int perf_mmap__read_init(struct perf_mmap *md, bool overwrite,
>  		 * Backward ring buffer is full. We still have a chance to read
>  		 * most of data from it.
>  		 */
> -		if (overwrite_rb_find_range(data, md->mask, head, startp, endp))
> +		if (overwrite_rb_find_range(data, md->mask, head, &md->start, &md->end))
>  			return -EINVAL;
> +		*startp = md->start;
> +		*endp = md->end;
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mmap.h b/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
> index ec7d3a24..9359e93 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mmap.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ struct perf_mmap {
>  	int		 fd;
>  	refcount_t	 refcnt;
>  	u64		 prev;
> +	u64		 start;
> +	u64		 end;
> +	bool		 overwrite;
>  	struct auxtrace_mmap auxtrace_mmap;
>  	char		 event_copy[PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE] __aligned(8);
>  };
> -- 
> 2.4.11