Hi Alexander,

Thanks for picking this up/adapting it. Just one comment below

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> From: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> 
> In preparation for adding more flags to perf AUX records, introduce a
> separate API for setting the flags for a session, rather than appending
> more bool arguments to perf_aux_output_end. This allows to set each
> flag at the time a corresponding condition is detected, instead of
> tracking it in each driver's private state.
> 
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> ---

--->8

> +void perf_aux_output_flag(struct perf_output_handle *handle, u64 flags)
> +{
> +     /*
> +      * OVERWRITE is determined by perf_aux_output_end() and can't
> +      * be passed in directly.
> +      */
> +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE))
> +             return;

Now that you've added this check...

> +     handle->aux_flags |= flags;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_aux_output_flag);
> +
>  /*
>   * This is called before hardware starts writing to the AUX area to
>   * obtain an output handle and make sure there's room in the buffer.
> @@ -360,6 +373,7 @@ void *perf_aux_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle 
> *handle,
>       handle->event = event;
>       handle->head = aux_head;
>       handle->size = 0;
> +     handle->aux_flags = 0;
>  
>       /*
>        * In overwrite mode, AUX data stores do not depend on aux_tail,
> @@ -409,34 +423,32 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_aux_output_begin);
>   * of the AUX buffer management code is that after pmu::stop(), the AUX
>   * transaction must be stopped and therefore drop the AUX reference count.
>   */
> -void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long 
> size,
> -                      bool truncated)
> +void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long 
> size)
>  {
>       struct ring_buffer *rb = handle->rb;
> -     bool wakeup = truncated;
> +     bool wakeup = !!handle->aux_flags;
>       unsigned long aux_head;
> -     u64 flags = 0;
> -
> -     if (truncated)
> -             flags |= PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED;
>  
>       /* in overwrite mode, driver provides aux_head via handle */
>       if (rb->aux_overwrite) {
> -             flags |= PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE;
> +             handle->aux_flags |= PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE;
>  
>               aux_head = handle->head;
>               local_set(&rb->aux_head, aux_head);
>       } else {
> +             handle->aux_flags &= ~PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE;
> +

... I don't think you need this addition anymore. It's harmless, though.

Will

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