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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mikey@neuling.org, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 06/10] powerpc, lib: Add new branch analysis support functions
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:40:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55782920.80909@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433914391.3096.40.camel@axtens.net>

On 06/10/2015 11:03 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> 
>> +static int instr_is_branch_xlform(unsigned int instr)
>> +{
>> +	return branch_opcode(instr) == 19;
>> +}
> Why do these not return bool? The functions below do.

Yeah they can, will change it.

>> +
>> +bool instr_is_indirect_func_call(unsigned int instr)
>> +{
>> +	/* XL-form instruction with LR set */
>> +	if (instr_is_branch_xlform(instr) && is_branch_link_set(instr))
>> +		return true;
>> +
>> +	return false;
>> +}

> Both of these functions could be made into a single 'return' statement,
> right?

Yeah, right.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-10 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-08 11:38 [PATCH V8 01/10] powerpc, perf: Drop the branch sample when 'from' cannot be fetched Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 02/10] powerpc, perf: Restore privillege level filter support for BHRB Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  3:43   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:08     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  3:28       ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12  7:06         ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 03/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize BHRB processing Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  4:36   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:09     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  3:32       ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12  7:05         ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 04/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize PMU based branch filter processing in POWER8 Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  5:07   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:09     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 05/10] powerpc, perf: Change the name of HW PMU branch filter tracking variable Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 06/10] powerpc, lib: Add new branch analysis support functions Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  5:33   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:10     ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 07/10] powerpc, perf: Enable SW filtering in branch stack sampling framework Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 08/10] powerpc, perf: Change POWER8 PMU configuration to work with SW filters Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  5:49   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:10     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  3:38       ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 09/10] powerpc, perf: Enable privilege mode SW branch filters Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  1:19   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12  7:04     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-08 11:38 ` [PATCH V8 10/10] selftests, powerpc: Add test for BHRB branch filters (HW & SW) Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-09  5:41   ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  2:09   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-06-12  7:02     ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-12  7:26       ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2015-06-12  8:59         ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-10  3:21 ` [PATCH V8 01/10] powerpc, perf: Drop the branch sample when 'from' cannot be fetched Daniel Axtens
2015-06-10 12:02   ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-06-11  2:22     ` Daniel Axtens

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