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When perf runs in compat mode (kernel in 64-bit mode and the perf is in 32-bit mode), the 64-bit value atomicity in the user space cannot be assured, E.g. on some architectures, the 64-bit value accessing is split into two instructions, one is for the low 32-bit word accessing and another is for the high 32-bit word. This patch introduces weak functions compat_auxtrace_mmap__read_head() and compat_auxtrace_mmap__write_tail(), as their naming indicates, when perf tool works in compat mode, it uses these two functions to access the AUX head and tail. These two functions can allow the perf tool to work properly in certain conditions, e.g. when perf tool works in snapshot mode with only using AUX head pointer, or perf tool uses the AUX buffer and the incremented tail is not bigger than 4GB. When perf tool cannot handle the case when the AUX tail is bigger than 4GB, the function compat_auxtrace_mmap__write_tail() returns -1 and tells the caller to bail out for the error. These two functions are declared as weak attribute, this allows to implement arch specific functions if any arch can support the 64-bit value atomicity in compat mode. Suggested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Russell King (oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210829102238.19693-2-leo.yan@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.