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authorWang Nan2016-03-28 08:41:30 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2016-03-31 10:30:47 +0200
commit1879445dfa7bbd6fe21b09c5cc72f4934798afed (patch)
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perf/core: Set event's default ::overflow_handler()
Set a default event->overflow_handler in perf_event_alloc() so don't need to check event->overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow(). Following commits can give a different default overflow_handler. Initial idea comes from Peter: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130708121557.GA17211@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Since the default value of event->overflow_handler is not NULL, existing 'if (!overflow_handler)' checks need to be changed. is_default_overflow_handler() is introduced for this. No extra performance overhead is introduced into the hot path because in the original code we still need to read this handler from memory. A conditional branch is avoided so actually we remove some instructions. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <pi3orama@163.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/core.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 51386e84293e..8c3b35f2a269 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6628,10 +6628,7 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
}
- if (event->overflow_handler)
- event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs);
- else
- perf_event_output(event, data, regs);
+ event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs);
if (*perf_event_fasync(event) && event->pending_kill) {
event->pending_wakeup = 1;
@@ -8152,8 +8149,13 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
context = parent_event->overflow_handler_context;
}
- event->overflow_handler = overflow_handler;
- event->overflow_handler_context = context;
+ if (overflow_handler) {
+ event->overflow_handler = overflow_handler;
+ event->overflow_handler_context = context;
+ } else {
+ event->overflow_handler = perf_event_output;
+ event->overflow_handler_context = NULL;
+ }
perf_event__state_init(event);