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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	gmx@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] perf/core: Add an ioctl to get a number of lost samples
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:12:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c857acbf-432e-a9ee-923c-dabc0559a2ff@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210811062135.1332927-1-namhyung@kernel.org>


> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index f5a6a2f069ed..44d72079c77a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -756,6 +756,8 @@ struct perf_event {
>   	struct pid_namespace		*ns;
>   	u64				id;
>   
> +	atomic_t			lost_samples;

Would rather use atomic64_t. atomic_t might wrap too quickly.

But it might be better to put it somewhere where you already have a lock 
on the event, then you wouldn't need an atomic.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-11 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-11  6:21 [RFC] perf/core: Add an ioctl to get a number of lost samples Namhyung Kim
2021-08-11 13:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2021-08-11 15:04 ` Jiri Olsa
2021-08-11 19:33   ` Stephane Eranian
2021-08-11 19:57     ` Jiri Olsa
2021-08-11 20:57       ` Namhyung Kim
2021-08-11 23:57         ` Stephane Eranian
2021-08-11 20:54   ` Namhyung Kim
2021-08-24 14:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-08-24 17:55       ` Namhyung Kim

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