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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] perf: generalize perf_callchain
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:47:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160225164729.GS6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455767939-2700534-2-git-send-email-ast@fb.com>

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:58:57PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> +static inline int perf_callchain_store(struct perf_callchain_entry *entry, u64 ip)
>  {
> +	if (entry->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
>  		entry->ip[entry->nr++] = ip;
> +		return 0;
> +	} else {
> +		return -1; /* no more room, stop walking the stack */
> +	}
>  }

Why 0 and -1 ?

What's wrong with something like:

static inline bool perf_callchain_store(struct perf_callchain_entry *entry, u64 ip)
{
	if (entry->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
		entry->ip[entry->nr++] = ip;
		return true;
	}
	return false;
}

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-25 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18  3:58 [PATCH net-next 0/3] bpf_get_stackid() and stack_trace map Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-18  3:58 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] perf: generalize perf_callchain Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-25 14:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:37     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-25 16:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:47   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-02-25 17:27     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-18  3:58 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] bpf: introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-25 14:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:42     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-25 16:50       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-18  3:58 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] samples/bpf: offwaketime example Alexei Starovoitov
2016-02-20  5:25 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] bpf_get_stackid() and stack_trace map David Miller
2016-02-25 14:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:44     ` David Miller

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