From 91d7753a45f8525dc75b6be01e427dc1c378dc16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:38 +0200 Subject: perf: Factor __output_copy to be usable with specific copy function Adding a generic way to use __output_copy function with specific copy function via DEFINE_PERF_OUTPUT_COPY macro. Using this to add new __output_copy_user function, that provides output copy from user pointers. For x86 the copy_from_user_nmi function is used and __copy_from_user_inatomic for the rest of the architectures. This new function will be used in user stack dump on sample, coming in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Arun Sharma Cc: Benjamin Redelings Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Ulrich Drepper Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 6ddaba4..b4c2ad3 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ out: return -ENOSPC; } -void perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, +unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, const void *buf, unsigned int len) { - __output_copy(handle, buf, len); + return __output_copy(handle, buf, len); } void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle) -- cgit v1.1